“It had been hard t live int he wilderness without a goal, without a future. Now, at last, we had one.p 166”

“Zane sighed. He knew no one had died. He knew exactly what had happened last night. He just didn‟t have perspective, because when he drank, he focused in on whatever he thought his goal was to the exclusion of everything else. Last night, Ty had been part of “everything else.” That was the problem: Ty wasn‟t his keeper—Ty was his conscience.”

“Gratitude on a daily basis means we express appreciation for what we have now without qualification for what we had in the past or desire in the future.”

“Remember Arikos the key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They humans need goals to strive for. All of Trieg's have been taken from him by his enemies so we need to replace them with new ones that matter to him. Without goals humanity is lost and a single man can't function. Acheron had been wrong about one thing. without goals everyone was lost. Even the gods.”

“Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.”

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”