No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn’t change anything.“It does, though,” said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. “Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”Not just in it. She was it.

There's honest work to be done, Johnny," whispered Griss. "The world is full of work, waiting for you.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy," said Pathka gently. "Whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time. Anyway, don't be afraid. We're walking away from death, not toward it.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy, whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy.