“Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.”

“Tweaking your body , it's all about trying to make your physical self fit with who you are inside”

“Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.”

“To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't belong.”

“Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.”

“That's not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it's... it doesn't even compare.''Why? Because it's worse?'She nodded.'But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I've broken every bone in my body, does that make your fracture go away? Does it hurt you any less, knowing that I am in more pain?''No, but that's”

“Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.”

“Um, right, okay. Have you taken any courses in interspatial manipulation? Probably not, huh?”“Can’t say that I have.”“Space-time topology?”“Nope.”“Transdimensional theory?”Rosemary made an apologetic face.“Aww!” said Kizzy, clasping her hands over her heart. “You’re a physics virgin!”

“All the things I’ve done to my body, I’ve done out of love.”