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.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

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

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

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.