"Only miscalculation could kill you in interstellar war. The equations were hard but they were fair."

"The freefall sex? Grossly oversold. Everything moves in all the wrong ways. Things get away from you. You have to str…"

"I do not trust the memory. Imaginings too easily become memories, memories imaginings."

"“Hey!” the people cried in their dreams. “Give us back our ghosts!” for ghosts are as much a part of a community as i…"

"These songs were the true names of things, spoken by the soul, so easily buried under the little busynesses of everym…"

"It was fate, and being angry at fate was as futile as being angry at the weather."

"She knew what she was now. She had a purpose. Freedom was still hers, but it was a purposeful freedom. She would seek…"

"She had trapped the bird of salvation, sung to it, tamed it and wrung its neck."

"The five minutes ticked away on Limaal Mandella’s fob watch and the tension wound tight around Corporation Plaza. Rae…"

"It is an easy, and terrible, mistake to make, to think your will is God’s will."