And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.