It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.
Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.
Evil can do anything, for a price.
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself