"Never?" he said, dismayed. "Never," she reiterated firmly. He nodded, pretending to be resigned, but secretly he thought that there were always ways… - Karen Lord

Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe.

And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.

Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.