“I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there had better be somewhere in it a method for handling fortune and chance so as to best provoke the most complicated, involved, and glorious refractions of what's possible.”
“She had no illusions of becoming a master knife fighter. This wasn't the Realms, where a thought delivered result. But she also knew she'd giver herself a better chance. And in life, at least in her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect& surprising & maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life.”
“... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.”
“I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”