“Little wonder he felt so often that he'd prolapsed all moral certainty.”

“All of creation suffers, young ones. Only in accepting our own mortality can we make a difference. Only in bearing the burden of our failures can we find the strength to go on. Only in detachment from glory, or honour, or jealousy... from life itself can we hope to spare others from grief. We are Doom Eagles. And we are dead already. -- Librarian Secundus Thryn of the Doom Eagles”

“She felt so lovely in his hands. She felt so loved in his eyes.”

“He could not talk himself out of pain any longer. He had no one to be strong for. So finally, he cried. He cried with deep sobs, head bent to the ground, palms pressed to his eyes. He cried so hard that sorrow rushed out of his face. He cried until he felt like the sea.”

“So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.”

“Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.”

“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all”