“They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.”

“But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.”

“Other girls play with soft toys, I said, and you play with knives”

“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldnt be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.”

“My arms would be wrapped around him like angels wings.”

“Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.”

“The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassio...”

“The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.”

“Everyone has a monster inside”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundes...”

“Let us love. Let our lives be a perpetual song of love for God, first of all, and for all human beings who suffer, love, and mourn. Let deep joy live in us. Let us be like the lark, enemy of the ni...”

“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.”