She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.