Scenery without solace is meaningless.

We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.