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21 " Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place. "
― K.J. Bishop , The Etched City
22 " You see yourself as something of a champion of the poor, don't you?" "No, just their doctor. "
23 " Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them. "
24 " Albo niczego nie można wybaczyć, albo nie ma nic do wybaczania. "
25 " She replied that the manual labour exercised her body while allowing her mind and spirit to rest, adding that she believed there was value in the discipline of ordinariness, provided that it was only a discipline and not an unvarying state of being. "