It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.