“Help me out, I pleaded. Youve left me alone to deal with this situation, and now were being dealt the consequences.I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it ...”

“How ya doing? Gabbys face came into view, and she grinned down at me. Shed stopped doing her healing thing, and the pain rushed in.Im just peachy, I quipped, throat scratchy. Only hurts when I brea...”

“I had this guys file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction.Did you say Desperado? I couldnt s...”

“Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, He bit off more than he could chew, didnt he? She made a motion as if she was biting into a tough piece of steak.Gabriellas l...”

“Joseph, youre out of clean towels. Lucia poked her head into the living room, the rest of her hidden behind the wall. Her red hair dripped water onto my wooden floors.Shes in the buff. Jenna guffaw...”

“Well, the only reason were friends is because you can rock a tweed suit, she informed, tone mock serious. So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.”

“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.”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”