A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world.

You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

This had been real: real in its flaws and uncertainties, real in its small triumphs, real in its compromises and understanding.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.