It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything. --Steelmind

Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.