I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

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

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

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

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

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