“...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.”
“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.”
“Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”
“As we stand there, it hits me how quickly everything changes - how life is like peering into a kaleidoscope, and just as you're looking at a gorgeous pattern you think you'd maybe even like to keep around forever, the colors morph into something completely different, and there's no getting back to that first pattern. No matter how much you'd like to see it again.”
“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”
“Ivy and I will deal with the uncomfortable situation like we always have…by ignoring it. It was something we were both good at.”