“There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.”

“I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.”

“I never wanted to be safe... I wanted to be good.”

“But for a moment I stay there, suspended above the green swell of the land as though thrown up onto the crest of a wave, seeing for the first time a break in the at horizon. For this the boats cros...”

“We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”

“I never wanted to be safe, I wanted to be good.”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”

“Never trust your colleagues. Work politics are founded by them.”

“Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is viewed as reasonable by the logic of the market and by a culture c...”

“We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.”

“You will never find peace with these fascistsYou'll never find friends such as weSo remember that valley of JaramaAnd the people that'll set that valley free.From this valley they say we are goingD...”