He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Don’t go beyond, no matter how much you feel you need to, Doctor. The barrier was not made to be broken. Remember this: there is more power here than you know. It is old and always restless. Remember.