Quotes from Monica Hughes

If you inhabited a world and a colony of tongueless people landed, would you consent to having your tongue cut out so that you could be like them?

You may lead a child into darkness, but you must never turn out the light.

Because he knew how to invent machines that sometimes worked, even though everyone else laughed at them, Jody had begun to feel that he was a great deal cleverer than the Fourths and even than the other Thirds, old and married though they were. But now he suddenly saw, in a plunge into depression, that he knew nothing . After all, machines were easy to understand. But people were a mystery!

Our eyes all have the same mechanism, yet each of us sees so differently.