“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...”

“But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.”

“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...”

“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.”

“Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.”

“We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.”

“I was just existing, but he made me want to live.”

“Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.”

“There is no such thing as a soulmateand who would want there to be? I dont want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so”

“I might like to have someone courting me. But it would have to be someone who is a square shooter and who has a train load of courage. And it would have to be someone who doesn't have to talk down ...”