And there, in the midst of blinding orange, yellow, and white flames, our forever begins.

Another thread snaps loose from my heart, the pain precise and acute. I embrace it, because it reminds me I'm still here. I'm alive. I'm empowered.

We have regiments as innumerable as the sands...And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.

They have both loved you with a child’s love, and now a man’s. It is the child’s love that holds you together . . . cemented by the moments you shared with them that they treasure most.

When he opens his mouth to speak, I place a finger on his

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and gig

Salty tears stream down my face—coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

The story begins only when the book closes.

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.