Crystal Singer

“She’d be top in whatever she did or die in the attempt.”

• from Crystal Singer, by Anne McCaffrey

The Word for World is Forest

“I don’t know.  Do men kill men, except in madness?  Does any beast kill its own kind?  Only the insects… There is a wish to kill in them…”

• Spoken by Selver in The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin