“Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move.”

“And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.”

“We were entwined so tightly that I was afraid to breathe, lest she move at all.”

“Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.”

“When I was very young I couldn't watch anything black and white on TV because I knew the people moving were now dust.”

“Why was he alive on Earth? Very often the meaning was obscured. Very often it required some digging. The meaning of his life was an elusive stream of water hundreds of feet below the surface, and he would periodically drop a bucket down the well, fill it, bring it up and drink from it. But this did not sustain him for long.”

“She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.”