Dying happens to everyone, even stars. Even the stuff between the stars. But if you believe in yourself and achieve your goals, you can die so hard t… - Catherynne M. Valente

He’d only said what he meant, which was, when you thought about it, a minor superpower, because so few people ever did.

Oh, certainly it had been alarming at first. But adjusting to certain changes in your circumstances was easy when you didn’t really care about anything. As far as she was concerned, she’d always talked. By some miracle, everyone else had recently achieved the ability to listen properly. She was over the novelty within half an hour. No one listened to her or asked for her input or attended gratefully to her needs any more than they ever had. They were too busy making big monkey fusses over their big monkey problems.

We have always believed that one of the hallmarks of sentience is the ability to look down upon others. It separates us from the lichen.