“Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.''I am, aren't I? Hear that, Zed? No more bambi comparisons. I'm a Rottweiler -with a temper.''A very small Rottweiler,' said Zed, still no...”

“The last thing I wanted was to fall in love because, deep down, I remembered that love hurt.”

“I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.”

“Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.”

“What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?”

“Zed : Penguins, such fascinating creatures, but I didnt know you were studying them. What class is that youre taking?Sky: The we-stupid-looking-creature-should-stick-together class.”

“Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.”

“One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedi...”

“Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter wa...”

“When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves”

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

“Your sky is full of stars and my arms too short to reach a piece to call my own”

“Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.”

“There is no such thing as a soulmateand who would want there to be? I dont want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so”

“I might like to have someone courting me. But it would have to be someone who is a square shooter and who has a train load of courage. And it would have to be someone who doesn't have to talk down ...”