“When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I cant describe.We all felt it, Nick said.You may have felt it, but I caused it. Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. Some...”

“If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thi...”

“Your friend Mikey knew what my touch could do, but he didnt tell me. He turned me into a murderer. Worse than a murderer.I think, said Nick, they call that manslaughter or wrongful death, dont they...”

“Mooooon! said the Ogre. Tranquility Then he pointed at the full moon. Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility. Then he added, Its made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before ...”

“His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears he had no hope ...”

“Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her.What do you mean end? asked Mikey.End means end. Complete and total destruction. She w...”

“Bear your pain or it will come back”

“A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.”

“It was a year ago today your daughter went missing. Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”

“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”