“Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.”

“He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There w...”

“A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.”

“That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.”

“His eyes were like galaxies, and everyone could get lost in them. How many stars flickered there, no one knew, but every time he glanced upon someone, a new star ignited, a new star was caught in t...”

“Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.”

“In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silencewishing, waiting, hoping, praying.”

“At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!”