“Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities.”

“But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.”

“Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ”

“Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

“Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”