Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

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