He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.