“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”

“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasyanyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”

“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”

“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and c...”

“About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way ...”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them th...”

“Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God”

“Giving away the very last peace of our heart is foolish! But if we keep it to ourselves might be selfish as well...so i think we should stay committed to the decisions and be flexible in our approa...”

“Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.”

“One King means peace.”

“Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary”

“I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be barter...”

“I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother...”

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”