“Fire and ice licked at his soulwhispered his namedrawing him deeper into the enveloping pain and blackness as hed dreamed earlier. He suddenly wished to return to the rippling stream. The water wou...”

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to liveto survive...clawed at her soul.”

“If a soul could drown in its own tears, then hers was already dead.”

“You want to show me your wrath? You want to hurt me, so show me. We can take this to the bedroom if you likethe bed might be reduced to kindling, but Im willing to take that chance. Now fight me, h...”

“Laney, why do I believe you transcend the ordinary? Why do I look at you, and expect to see a faade fall away, revealing something much more than even the extraordinary? Tell me."Elaine flushed, he...”

“Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either too much or too little. It either passed too quickly or too slowly. It didnt belong to anyoneit was...”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the pastedit out the monsters hell-bent on taking the lives of everyone she loved.”

“The essence of Being Hybrid is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.”

“Digital IT has a hybrid nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from built to last, to wired for change.”