Life is full of beautiful dangers, dangerous beauties... They wound us in ways we cannot see: an injury ripples out, like a stone dropped in water, touching moments years into the future.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

All I can say is, there’re stranger things on this earth than we can ever figure out if we had a hundred lifetimes.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Oh, propriety,” says Mrs Benjamin. “We’re always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

A 6-inch cannon. I've only ever seen those on a Saypuri dreadnought... And it looks like they have, or expect to have, 36 of the damn things."

"And they plan to do what with them? Bombard the hills? Fight a war with the squirrels?