“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”

“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

“He needs to grieve," I tell her. "He'll come find us when he's ready.""Rose is never going to be dead," she says, too disheartened to sound bitter.”

“For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.”

“Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”