Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

If our life is built on God’s standards and we are responsible and zealous for the things of the kingdom, then we will have persistent success in life and wealth, which will not bring tears

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot.” ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.