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.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.