no knowledge obtained without risk

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.