The gun goes off. I fall.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human