The royal children have skulls of granite, it’s true, but they come by that honestly. - Jim C. Hines

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

She didn’t argue. That, more than anything else, told me she hadn’t fully recovered from everything she’d been through. A year ago, she would have argued with me on principle, secure in her teenage sense of immortality and invulnerability.

Change is a difficult, often violent process, both for individuals and for whole species. The more rapidly change, the uglier the conflict.