I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.

Of course. You get everything from books.

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.

Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... That your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too.

This is what fun is like,' said Rain, almost to herself.

It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.