“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”
“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
“There wouldn't be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.”
“In the darkness all the gods were strangers.”
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”
“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.”