“Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.”

“Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.”

“path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid-”

“Do not go where the path will lead, go there instead where is not having the path and trail.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”