You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and hear the familiar song of water. The world did not deserve such a river.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.