Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

People who have expertise just love to share it. That's human nature.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.