I can never ‘un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep.

With you, I truly am fearless, Marcus. With you, I’m not even afraid to be weak.

Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.

The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.

The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it-that's the thing.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

My job is to help you fall in love.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.