“They needed to believe they had a chance.Even if they had none.They needed to believe that love and faith would win the day.Even if the day was already lost.”

“Then she reached to kiss him on the lips, and he let himself have that. Soft, warm, she loved him, a monstrous abomination, a Cursed One. This might be all they ever had, this moment, this kiss, this love.”

“This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors.”

“What kind of freaks are they? Katelyn thought as they continued to circle her. Is this some result of banjo inbreeding?”

“As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)”

“Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.”

“The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.”