“Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.”
“Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.”
“But what if you're wrong?What if there's more?What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What if He's more than enough?What if it's love?”
“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”
“There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.”
“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”