The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.