I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.