“I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use ...”

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”

“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”

“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”

“The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is n...”

“If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.”

“Theres a landoh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go backand I will.”

“Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching a pale reflection of the fireworks of one ...”

“This one's for Alaska Young!”

“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I ...”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”