“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?”
“The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.”
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
“Sometimes mountains move, one rock at a time.”