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

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

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

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

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.