“Why does the life everlasting have to be won at such terrible cost? If the lifeeverlasting is true, why can it be achieved only through death, through grief, andthrough agony? What kind of God is it who gives us the world and everything in it,and the capabiliiy of loving so fiercely, and then takes it all away?”

“Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish theirchildren to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they mustunderstand that their children are not their property; that their children areentitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.”

“Heacox had disobeyed the first twolaws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touchuntil you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was onemore law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it.”

“Jeśli chce pan wiedzieć, to złorzeczyłem Bogu, że mnie zostawił. Czyż nie modliłem się zawsze, jak należy? Nie wierzyłem w Niego? Gdzie więc był wtedy... kiedy naprawdę Go potrzebowałem?”

“Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.”

“Take all away. I am content to knowSuch love is mine-for life is all too briefTo grieve for pleasures bringing only grief;Give me but You; it is enough just so.”

“I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.”