"You’d have everyone substitute your fantasies for their own."

"Jason was an optimist, and Kylis was experienced."

"She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question."

"He must have been rebuffed and denigrated all his life, to be so afraid of touching another human being."

"She, too, felt the need for fresh air and rain and the ocean’s silent words."

"We spend most of our time carrying trivial cargoes for trivial reasons to trivial people."

"“It’s impossible to protect anyone completely without enslaving them. I think that’s something you’ve never understoo…"

"He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune."

"If you want to. That’s the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants o…"

"The intensity of Melissa’s loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self…"