“Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.”

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

“We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast”

“Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.”

“You not only have to do the right thing. You have to look like you're doing the right thing.”

“My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.”