We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.

There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.