“From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.”

“The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.”

“I loved and lost and survived.”

“Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn't, I suppose. One pretends it isn't happening.”

“Cosm is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxis place, Cosm is the most efficient maid Ive ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her...”

“I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.”

“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?”

“Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.”

“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. W...”

“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

“But the powerful words of the Pastor repeated in my head, Theres a Champion inside of you!”

“Secrets, however long they are kept, usually still manage to be brought to light. The best you can hope for is that youll be in control of when a secret gets out, not if it does. -Melody in CHIMERA-”

“You are the most priced before God.Acknowledge this”