“There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.”

“I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.”

“I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.”

“But for a moment I stay there, suspended above the green swell of the land as though thrown up onto the crest of a wave, seeing for the first time a break in the at horizon. For this the boats cros...”

“We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”

“I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.”

“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”