Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river?

We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins. It'll go on spinning, no matter how many people are slaughtered." After a moment, he added. "I almost wish it wouldn't, if we aren't allowed to go on spinning with it.

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

You're in fine temper," Raffin said. "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.

Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere.

I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.