“Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.”

“Contentment is an asset that we take for granted until we lose it. It's the brother of happiness, the sister of peace of mind, and the mother of purpose.”

“For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.”

“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”

“What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.”

“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.”