“But life is beautiful, Sariel! Gabriel said, trying to convince him. Watch the sunrise sometime lying in the scented flowers of the field, or the shooting stars at the end of summer! Read a couple ...”

“What am I to you?Sophiel smiled. The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after me with its fiery rays. I only have to turn towards it for it to set fir...”

“I lied to you, she said, hanging her head in shame, more than once. In fact, I swore that my lies were truth. I cant understand how it could have happened. It just came out of my mouth and by the t...”

“In the end, Astrid couldnt do anything about my . . . turning into light, but she made a prediction. She said the sun would help me and I would be cured thanks to its efforts.The sun?Yes. It was th...”

“But life is beautiful, Sariel!’ Gabriel said, trying to convince him. ‘Watch the sunrise sometime lying in the scented flowers of the field, or the shooting stars at the end of summer! Read a coupl...”

“What am I to you?’Sophiel smiled. ‘The sun. You are my sun, like Astrid said. My sun, that lights up my life. That looks after me with its fiery rays. I only have to turn towards it for it to set f...”

“Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!”

“It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this pe...”

“When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.”

“Love is always fresh as morning dew.”

“May you love blossom like a lily.”

“Over everything, I choose you”

“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.”