“By committing suicide, Al had taken away the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.”

“...the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.”

“The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.”

“The sun had bled away every smell and left nothing.”

“But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.”

“You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives”

“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”