Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

You can't eat straight A's.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.