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1 " Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them. "
― , MapHead 2
2 " Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect. "
3 " The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. "
4 " It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think? "
5 " He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen "
6 " Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. "
7 " Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume. "
8 " I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins. "
9 " Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down. "
10 " Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once. "
11 " Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy. "
12 " You're special, not strange. You should be glad. "
13 " But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them. "
14 " The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong? "
15 " Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better. "
16 " Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy. "
17 " Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it one me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do? "
18 " I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble. "
19 " Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it. "
20 " That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have? "