“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!”

“But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.”

“Things in motion stay in motion, or, if you just keep going, you'll get there (the first rule of Physics)”

“Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.”

“You don't have to perceive the future as five or ten years from now. Tomorrow is the future. Ask God for that each day and slowly you'll begin to understand how important each day can be.”

“I just get a feeling sometimes that everything is predetermined, and I am going through the motions of tracing an existence that will be what it will already be.”