A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.