“Junk? Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasnt about to let that pass.”

“Whatever you do, dont make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.”

“She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandle...”

“Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.”

“Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.”

“Junk?” Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn’t about to let that pass.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Go outside. Dont tell anyone and dont bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day ou...”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”