Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Above and behind them the Dipper turned on its great handle as if to pour night itself out onto the dreaming continent and each of its seven stars gleamed from between the fitful clouds.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.

With my love I homeI paid for lustDigresses like some, Only, if she understood, Her curse was my unfulfilled thirst.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

You learn to do by doing. You learn to be by being.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.