“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.”

“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.”

“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.”

“She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. Shes really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were ...”

“He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”

“Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.”

“For the shadows to stop growing. For people to stop being angry.”

“My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.”