“Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.”

“Embrace the pain, Sharum.”

“To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.”

“Cant trust no one else to do what you wont do for yourself.”

“Why are you doing this? Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mothers, but every word clear. My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.Nor would mine, but we are not our ...”

“All men are brothers in the night.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. Its all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isnt conditional. No love is conditional. If love...”

“How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?The Creator didnt make love conditional, Jona said. Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it,...”

“It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.”

“Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS T...”

“You are the creator of your world.”