“The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A...”

“There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasnt sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before Id given h...”

“Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earne...”

“When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. When will you learn that its up to you if you play those parts or not?”

“Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers dont ever leave.”

“Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And its beautiful.”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”