Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass
We have all come together to greet the stranger, Mary. Those of us who know her have reason to be grateful for her activities since she arrived among us. We have waited until she had some command of our language. With the help of many of us, but especially the Zalif Azal, the stranger, Mary, can now understand us.
Paul Williams
- Remember Your Essence
You cannot change your essence. If you throw it in a deep hole, you will express your essence from the bottom of a deep hole. When you accept yourself as you are, you lose your pictures of success. You gain new reserves of energy. And you can see how everything in your life has led directly to this moment.
Tom Robbins
- Jitterbug Perfume
The citadel was dark and the heroes were sleeping. When sleeping, it sounded as if they were testing the air for dragon smoke. Except that the "citadel" was Concord State Prison and the sleeping "heroes", who had been damaged by sorry environments and shoddy genes long before they had had a chance to wax heroic, were testing the air for tear gas.
Benjamin Hoff
- The Te of Piglet - Tao Te Ching
Nothing in the world is more yielding and gentle than water. Yet it has no equal for conquering the resistant and tough. The flexible can overcome the unbending; the soft can overcome the hard.
