Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.