As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.