“My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.”

“A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice.In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.”

“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events. (“Lover When You're Near Me”)”

“God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.”

“Five thousand miles away and I can still feel your turbulence on my skin, Dustin; your grit stuck in the chambers of my heart . . . and all the silence that has followed it.Please write me back.”

“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”