The Spear of Stars (The Cycle of Galand #5)

by Edward W. Robertson

Impossible things only remain impossible until the moment someone comes along and does them anyway.

Once your illusions are destroyed, the truth appears to you without effort, but will disturb those who still possess them."

We are feeble creatures, unable to grasp reality, or even to define it. That is why it so often tricks us: we never understood it to begin with."

"Secrecy. The surest sign that we are doing wrong, despite all our attempts to rationalize that it is to the good. I will not tell a soul."