Nikys had never believed that clothes made the man, but the lack of them certainly did. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Talking to the gods had been a much more comfortable proposition when there had seemed no danger of Their talking back.

“I’m planning my course work for the next session at university. I was too late to start this summer, so I’ll begin in the fall. There’s so much to choose from. I feel so ignorant.”
“Educated is what you aim to be coming out, not going in.”

"It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."