“Nightmares and secrets. Ewan wished he knew what had happened to these girls before he found them.”

“Every day, they gave him new reasons to smile, laugh, worry, and wonder.”

“With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaquas hands. One of my favorites.”

“With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.”

“You know, I don’t think your brother dislikes you as much as you think. After all, he gave up a kingdom to stay with his family.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.”

“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," ...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“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.”