“Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.”

“... those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty.”

“All people know the Greater Hunger...It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things...""For love?" Renie asked."Yes, I suppose that could be true.”

“... Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?”

“Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.”

“A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.”

“I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.”