Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.