How can he do this? If you were mine, I would fight to keep you. I would die, before I let you go.

With courage and hope, we can conquer our fears and do what we once believed impossible.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

A poet could kill the dead.

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.