Loss was a night that never ended.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story no one else does. Believe in your unique steps up the mountain.

The beauty is in the mystery, don't you agree?- Hayden

Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.