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

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

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.

Love is like water from the ocean." Damiana said. "You cannot empty it dry. Take bucket after bucket of water out of the Cormeon Sea, and there is still more water left than you could ever use up. That's what love's like.

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

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?

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.