The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.