They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.

It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.

[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?"
"Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.