Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.