“He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.”

“Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.”

“The more he knew, the more he desired to know. He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.”

“Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving, the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more.”

“And all the woe that moved him soThat he gave that bitter crythe wild regrets, and the bloody sweatsNone knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.”

“The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”