“You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.”
“You couldn't change the past. You could only go forward”
“One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...”
“You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.”
“What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn't see the wind itself, but I could see it carried water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside.”
“If you don’t like what’s playing, change the channel.”