A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

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

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.