“We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would ...”

“But war had a taming effect”

“What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.”

“To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.”

“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”

“He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.”

“But war had a taming effect”

“Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.”

“Theres a loneliness that only exists in ones mind. The loneliest moment in someones life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.”

“I refuse to believe that were going to go through life without something magical happening”

“Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of...”

“I refuse to believe that we’re going to go through life without something magical happening”

“Listen to your intuition. When you're at a crossroad, the little voice is always talking to you. You just have to pay attention.”

“There is an inner gift that each of us possess as deep insightful knowing, regardless of our circumstances. It isnt as difficult to access this gift as some would make it out to be. It is quiet sim...”

“Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.”