Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.