“I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.”

“Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.”

“Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.”

“You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?”

“When Ragnuk killed you, I looked for you everywhere. But you didn't come back. For decades I looked for you, terrified the angels were punishing me for letting you die alone. I thought that you'd never come back to me--that I'd lost you forever.”

“Things get tough Chase, that's the way life is. But when it does, you don't just go running away from it all into the arms of the first girl willing to go to bed with you. That's not how it works. Marriage is supposed to be forever. You made a promise to me, and your broke it. This wasn't just a one-time thing; you saw her over and over and just lied to my face like I was nobody.”

“You know how you feel when you meet someone and they just give you the impression they're living on this entirely different planet from everyone else? That's sort of how I felt when I met you.”