“If you ever mess with my daughter again, it will be the last mistake you make!”

“You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.”

“If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right" Tarah had said. "If not, your better off without him.”

“Irony sucks, you know?"Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.”

“The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God.”

“You found yourself in a situation and you made a mistake. That doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you human.”

“Sarayu: “Mack, if anything matters than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will ever be the same again” (235).”