“The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.”

“I tapped around on my new Miracle Phonea gift from Josephas I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasnt trying to be rude, but Id recently become addicted to this one game on my Mirac...”

“At the sound of her name, Lucias blue eyes honed in on me. She cocked her head to the side as if puzzled. Why me? she wondered.Lucia, you exploded with power after Ehno was killed. I shot Ehno an a...”

“We want to fight.And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know thats never going to happen, I said blithely.”

“I suggest you leave now, or youll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.Tie us down?And gag you, Joseph cheerfully reminded them.”

“So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would? I joked.I could only see Andrew's face in profile, but a grin overtook his earlier grim expression, and he laughed. I draw th...”

“Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!”

“It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this pe...”

“When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”