“He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even more intimate, someplace where heart and soul melded into a yearning so strong...”

“In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.”

“It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb”

“Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.”

“May your troubles be lessYour blessings be more.And nothing but happinessCome through your door.”

“The homeland might be lacking snakes, but it held its share of venom.”

“...only a fool would believe in miracles because - let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That's a miracle. Or you're a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, ...”

“The moment is a miracle.”

“...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.”

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?”

“I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.”