A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.