This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

...the heart is an organ of fire.