As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.