“Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, 'It doesnt matter. They are all dead.' He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. 'Its been a while since Ive felt that.'Caleb nodded. 'It never g...”

“The ways of the heart are complex. He looked out at the ocean again. The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a mans undoing. With passion must come wis...”

“why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.”

“Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.”

“Yes, said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.”

“Good, said Creed. I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-de...”

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”