Status Updates From Otherwise: Three Novels

it seemed that soon there would be in the world far too many healthy people, as good as immortal, unable to be killed by anything but their own stupidity. p443

If I were a saint, I wouldn't tell you, now, what you should do. And since I'm not a saint, I can't. p450

Truthful speaking would be a simple way to tell the truth, if the whole truth were simple, and could be told. p411

If they met ...he could only imagine that he would be full of shame and hurt and embarrassment. Better to let the enormous engine of his love, disengaged from it's object, grind and spin on uselessly within him till it finally ran out of fuel or fell to pieces, to silence. p308

Certain paths in his consciousness would become well trodden ways because there was no other impinging consciousness to deflect him. p180

...taken as a right, not a gift, she always felt wronged by the suns departure. 227

Every Species interprets the world in its own terms only. p178

...a mission, whose shape they cannot perceive, whose end they fear for, an end that might be a means, they don't know, or a lie, and yet they have no other. p112

She had forgotten where she was, or when she had come there, or what time of the day it now was: but she knew someone was near and watching. p77

Time began...when men invented it, and left records to mark it by; before then, iy didn't exist. p62

The expert at circumlocation must first have his matter clear to himself. p43

Perhaps if I wait, something will return to me. Some direction...that will let me know the next thing to do. p16