"I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love."
"You were baptized?""My sister told me that yes, Father baptized me shortly after birth. My mother was a Protestant of a faith that deplored infant baptism, so they had a quarrel about it." The Bishop held out his hand to lift the Speaker to his feet. The Speaker chuckled. "Imagine. A closet Catholic and a lapsed Mormon, quarreling over religious procedures that they both claimed not to believe in."
"You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile.The Speaker's smile was just as chilly. "And you're the one who told the people I was Satan and they shouldn't talk to me."
"I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet."
"I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin."
"Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty."
"When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes."
"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."
"When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them."
"Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go."