What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.