He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?