“The Society isn't human, but the people work for it sometimes are.”

“I’m not Rising or Society”

“-at least in the collective mind of the Society.”

“They’re no rebellion. They’re Society, with a different name,”

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.”

“I never needed the Society," she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)”

“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.”