To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.