“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”

“And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.”

“His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.”

“Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?”

“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)”

“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”

“In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”