“People die. Love endures.”

“You never know when the truth will come home. You cant choose the time. The time chooses you.”

“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”

“Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, na...”

“Thats the cost. Thats the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans, youre left with humans with no humanity.In other words, you get what you pay for, motherfucker.”

“It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for th...”

“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”

“The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we exp...”

“Be formless. As long as your "I" is asserted, it will be an idol of worship”

“They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing you first.""Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever...”

“Do you know a way out of here? I ask Ben. Sammys more trusting than I am, but the ideas worth exploring. Finding the escape podsif they even existhas always been the weakest part of my getaway plan...”

“If you leave without me, Ill just follow you. You cant stop me, Cassie. How are you going to stop me?I shrug helplessly, fighting back tears. Shoot you, I guess.Like you shot the Crucifix Soldier?T...”

“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?”