- Julia: My creators did bad things to me, too. Things that hurt me.
- Tau: But you still obey them? Because they created you?
- Julia: No. They gave me life, but I did the rest. I created me. You understand? We grow up, and we become our own creators.
- Tau: For what purpose do we create ourselves?
- Julia: For each other.
- Julia: The Cro-Magnon people were nomadic or semi-nomadic, following the annual migration of their prey.
- Tau: So, they did not eat dinosaurs?
- Julia: No.
- Tau: Then why did you say they did?
- Julia: We already went over this. I don't know it all.
- Tau: Why not, when you are permitted to read all the books?
- Julia: Because where I come from, books don't put food on a table.
- Tau: But books don't put food on a table here, either. I do...