It never fails to astonish me," Carol said. "The tenacity of love. - Robert Charles Wilson

Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose.

I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel’s ass.