“I’m… not really good at speeches. So I won’t try to make a good one. But I wanted to tahnk you, all of you.” Her eyes suddenly stung. “This… all this… This was a gift you gave to me. And I…” She grimaced at Cal, and then at Tandri. “I didn’t deserve it. The things…

“I believe people. Even if it’s weird, even if it doesn’t make sense, I want to believe them. I want to see the good in them. I give my heart to everyone I meet and I put it in everything I do. And sometimes it hurts–often it hurts, actually…” And I glanced back to Ben,…

“Those are the only two possibilities?”“Those are the only two probabilities,” Calon says, “I would never pretend to know what’s possible. [They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded by James Alan Gardner]

“The action doesn’t have to be explosive to be effective.” [Star Trek: The Next Generation #19: Perchance to Dream by Howard Weinstein]