She put her hand on my shoulder, and her eyes let me know, just crouch down, hold tight, there's a little bit of pain for you, but not too much.

One thing about her," I said, "that often gets lost in all the scripts is that she can love unconditionally. She can love people that don't love her back.""That's a superpower?" Andy said."No mortal can do it," I said.

Strain on the community -- That's a ridiculous arguement. Then nobody in the world should have children. I think asking people not to have children is just another form of genocide.

I think you have boundary problems," Groovy said."There's such a thing as too-strict boundaries, you know. You're all cut off from everybody.""I am?". I felt just the opposite. I felt like I bled over everything, in an unseemly fashion, and my feelings for Sands was exacerbating this.

A woman reading is a grave temptation.

Meanwhile, Susan looked carefully into each of our faces. She was actually waiting for us to answer, to give reasons why people fall in love and get married. Nobody knows, I wanted to say. Nobody really knows. But that doesn't mean you're allowed to not do it.