Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.