“He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.”

“What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?”

“The lesser mysteries of loveFor he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful form; and first, if he be guided by his instructor aright, to love one such form only--out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty of form in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in every form is one and the same! And when he perceives this he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will despise and deem a small thing, and will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next stage he will consider that the beauty of the mind is more honorable than the beauty of the outward form.”

“Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility; the possibility of one day being able to surpass even him.”

“We never surrendered. We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope.”

“And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.”