The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.