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"Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone."
"Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition.""But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen.Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him."
"Strange world isn't it?"
"Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step."
"Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for"
"Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own."
"Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?"
"After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much."
"Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology"
"So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance."
"How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?"
"I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed."
"Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that."
"Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale."
"Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do."
"Humans were always surprising me."
"This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached."
"My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning."
"If I got to pick anyone, anyone at all, to be stranded on a deserted planet with, it would be you, I always want to be with you. And not just... not just to talk to. When you touch me... I don't want you to stop."
"The ticking seconds pulled me toward the end. It was cold when he no longer held me. It got colder every step I took away from him. Just my imagination, of course. It was still summer here. It would always be summer here for me."
"There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen."