“Some things are created to be together.”

“Some things will remain valuable no matter who is in charge”

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”

“There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.”

“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.”

“Inside me are the real things that give me strength—my thoughts, the small stones of my own choosing. They tumble in my mind, some polished from frequent turning, some new and rough, some that cut.”

“This is the difference between us. I live to sort, he knows how to create.”