It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?