“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”

“I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.”

“...needing people and caring about them were two very different things.”

“He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.”

“If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?"To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed, that was the problem. Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I wasn't good at it... It's a curse all right, you're just too young to know about that sort of thing. To be good at something you don't care about?”

“I came to understand that my father was a careful man. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”