“You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.”

“There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love.”

“You think me noble? She rolled to her side facing him. Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?”

“The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.”

“He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.”

“God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.~Ecclesiastes 3:17”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“We have to make holiness our creed”

“Sometimes dead is better”

“Any profession of faithentrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”