“His worst nightmare had become real; life was no more than a fragile breath, a fleeting instant od light in the eternal darkness of time”

“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”

“And it would be a death of the worst kind; becoming the very thing that I hunted myself, or worse. It was far more terrifying than the end of life completely. I'd rather be gone from this world for all of eternity than become a slave to Hell.”

“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.”

“Spending so much time alone had turned Chloe's imagination into a deep dark forest. It was a magical place to escape to, and so much more thrilling than real life.”

“Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.”