Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the cavalry," said Tom, "but I'm Santa Claus. Let's go downstairs and open some presents.