Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

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.

It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.