We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man--" and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.

I do not think that you can be changing the end of a song or a story like that, as though it were quite separate from the rest. I think the end of a story is part of it from the beginning.

...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.