It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of course; simultaneity is identity. But to our perceptions, that simultaneity will function as a transmission, a sending. So we will be able to use it to talk between worlds, without the long waiting for the message to go and the reply to return that electromagnetic impulses require. It is really a very simple matter. Like a kind of telephone.

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

First sentences are doors to worlds.

Not even need and love can defeat fate.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.