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It was easy to go on about helping "the poor." Helping a poor person with a name, a face, a history, and many needs, a person whose mistakes and lapses of judgment you have recorded-that was a more trying matter.

trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I'm really enjoying this book and savoring it. The illustrations are beautiful and informative and the writing is full of information yet not dry at all.

I am really enjoying this book and am finding it hard to put down, but I just have to say, I do not like Sienna at all. I find it very interesting that I can like a book this much when half of the story is written from the point of view of a character that I don't like in the least. This says a lot for the author and her writing style as well as the storyline. I'm excited to finish the book and see how it ends!

"If you're in the middle of something, Piedmont and I can go out in the yard," Anna offered. "I just need a medicinal cat this evening."

"Outside it was drizzling on and off. It occurred to me the rain should have turned purple. Because something had shifted in the universe. But it was regular colored rain. I pressed the remote to unlock the Toyota Sienna and drove out of the parking lot into a world without Prince."