“A man painstakingly plans for every detail, carefully lays the foundations, picks his moments wisely and adds the right pieces with gusto only to be confronted a turn before the end of the race by a stubborn, more dead than alive, old man.”

“I think they are a better race than humans ever were.”

“...choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is.”

“Has he been with a woman yet?” he asked remembering the girl at the barn. She shot him an angry glance.“Is that all you think about? Of course he hasn’t.He is only eleven.” “Nothing wrong with a boy starting early. I did.” “And look how well you’ve turned out.”

“It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.”

“Mister if you want more to join,’ She said half-choked ‘you’ll have to put in the coin.”

“You can keep a secret, only for so much time unfortunately. But of course, you can make that time, seem like forever.”