My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.