Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

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.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

In a time of destruction, create something.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

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