-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

I see all of them. All the colors.

It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.