Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.

I've always thought that pressure is trying to feed your family, trying to make a mortgage. We play a game...And this is an amazing game.