I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.