“Sometimes I feel like Im losing my mind, she said with a hintof sadness.You lost your mind a long time ago, he said seriously. She looked at him with indignation. Thats a compliment for anyone who ...”

“Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul. The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was mu...”

“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.”

“The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.”

“The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.”

“This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

“The stars were better company anyway. They were very beautiful, and they almost never snored.”

“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. ”

“Proprio un elfo snob doveva toccarmi in sorte? le rispose divertito. Allora, non mi rimane altra scelta che portarti in campeggio, prima o poi, o in canoa o a fare una nuotata nel lago.Lei lo fiss ...”

“As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and u...”

“I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil Id like to be. I guess Id like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserv...”

“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”