“Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away.”

“Never diagnosed the enemy before.”

“Its a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.”

“You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. Its important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.”

“It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.”

“We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn."Arthur," I say.The car doesn't yield."Arthur," I say.He hits...”

“You have to come downstairs now!" panted Alice."What's wrong?""Everything! Izzy's floating, Melanie ran into the wall, my hand made a silver ball and Colleen smashed my keys though the wall!" Alice...”

“In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”