Nova

Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.

“I was born,” the Mouse said. “I must die. I am suffering. Help me. There, I just wrote your book for you.”

There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

The inevitable is that unprepared for.

The rich are always enamored of the ancient.

The captain is different too, Cyana. Before, the Roc flew under half a man, a man who’d only known victory. Now I’m a whole man. I know defeat as well.

Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.

Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.

You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.