He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.