Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.