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“He heard the music of the pipes. And he heard something else, too.
He heard the absence of a familiar and beloved sound.
His mate Beatrice wasn’t breathing anymore.” 318

“It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” 320

“Sooner or later, Chrono believed, the magical forces of the Universe would put everything back together again.
They always did.”

“An explosion on the Sun had separated man and dog. A Universe schemed in mercy would have kept man and dog together.
The Universe inhabited by Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog was not schemed in mercy. Kazak had been sent ahead of his master on the great mission to nowhere and nothing.” 301

“Nobody likes to think he’s being used. He’ll put off admitting it to himself until the last possible instant.” 290

“It was a tribute to the spiritual intimacy he and Rumfoord had once shared that Rumfoord knew so well how to hurt him.” 291

“His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.” 264

“The sermon of the panorama was that even a man without a friend in the Universe could still find his home planet mysteriously, heartbreakingly beautiful.” 265

“‘Just because something feels better than anything else,’ he said in his thoughts, ‘that don’t mean it’s good for you.’” 207

“I’ve never been alive that I can remember,” said Unk brokenly. “I thought I was finally going to get some living done.” 198

“It is the tension between the hot hemisphere of day-without-end and the cold hemisphere of night-without-end that makes Mercury sing.” 187

“They have only two possible messages. The first is an automatic response to the second, and the second is an automatic response to the first.
The first is, ‘Here I am, Here I am, Here I am.’
The second is, ‘So glad you are, So glad you are, So glad you are.’”189

“Not to be lonely, not to be scared—Boaz had decided that those were the important things in life. A real buddy could help more than anything.” 185