She had learned to doubt, rather than simply to question. - Vonda N. McIntyre

You’d have everyone substitute your fantasies for their own.

He must have been rebuffed and denigrated all his life, to be so afraid of touching another human being.

"I didn't watch her carefully enough."
"What could you have done? Remember her life, not her death. She was brave and happy and arrogant, the way a child should be. You could only protect her more by chaining her to you with fear. She couldn't live that way, not and remain the person you loved."