That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself