“Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.”

“Canis latrans,” Wolfenson finally remarked.Fincher furrowed his brow. “Latin for... barking dog?”“Yes, the coyote. They have a gift of making the howls of a few sound like the howls of the many.” He looked toward the roadblock of brick and mortar. “I believe that’s why the Landlord chose them as his messengers.”

“A lizard brain fired the gun that wounded you, but it was the combination of three brains that orchestrated the elaborate circumstances in which the trigger was pulled. Way back when, the Landlord believed a second brain would endow some of his lower life forms with the capacity for emotional connections. By adding the third brain, he probably planned on having his... higher forms empowered with the ability to not only think before acting, but to feel regret afterwards when their actions were wrong. But that’s not what happened, is it?”

“I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.”

“She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.”

“When Carri died, I felt like I had lost everything, except my life, and my memories of her. Now I can’t even dream of her...”

“You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.”