Quotes from Rand Miller

The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.

In an infinite universe, all things are possible -- within physical limits, that is -- and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality.

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

Torn pages curl and brown. The flames fly up. In the flickering light a cry. Who will lift the fallen stones? Who will link the broken chain?

Rivers of fire. Even the rocks burn. An island rises from the sea. Dark magic in an errant phrase. The people bow to the lord of error.

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swimming out among the stars?

Catherine smiled then; opening the Linking Book, she placed her hand against it. "We could fall into the night and be cradled by stars and still return to the place where we began…" The last word was an echo as she vanished.

Descending the great ladder of time, we see four faces. The face of four women. Aged and dead the first two are. The third, a dreamer. The last, a teacher.

Yes, and for all his bluster about making D'ni great again, he had forgotten precisely what it was that had made the D'ni extraordinary. The reason why their empire had lasted for so long. It was not their power, nor the fact that they had once ruled a million worlds, it was their restraint, their astonishing humility.