Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.