“I was shaking and scared by the time I reached the office. It wasn t so much for me. I guess at some level I didn t care all that much if I lived or died right then. I just worried about blowing it somehow. For the others. For my friends. I guess it s true what they always say about combat soldiers. They may start out fighting for their country, but they end up fighting for the guy next to them in the foxhole. I didn t so much care about the fate of the human race at that moment. I wasn t human. I was a hawk. But I cared about Jake, and Cassie, and Marco, and Ax-man, and Rachel. Always Rachel.”
“You cannot save people who do not want to be saved, said Magnus. You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.”
“As if she had a magnetic force around her, I felt I was being caught up in the twisting vortex of her complex being, heading for collision like a comet being drawn into her unstable atmosphere.”
“Everything relies on the idea. The idea is paramount. The idea is all powerful. Art is the vanguard of developments in thoughts and ideas.”
“There is a network beneath the surface of our consciousness in which a far more powerful force flows. These intimations of the underlying knowledge, these intimations of the soul, of the Divine, are vital for the survival of humankind.”
“Love didn’t have to be romantic to encircle you in its arms. It didn’t have to make your heart race or your toes curl. Love could be just this, the sound of laughter on a warm night, the absolute comfort of being exactly who you were with the person who knew you inside and out.”
“We are just scared little infants who can t afford a broken heart.”
“It’s hard to figure out how a friendship begins, she thought. Maybe sometimes it’s because someone you thought you knew - and that you didn’t really - turns out to be a whole lot more like a friend than you ever guessed.”
“Friendship unlocks destinies.”
“Friendship With Children Contributes To Their Psychosocial Development”
“Friendship with children is necessary for determining the influence they receive.”
“Friendship with children is fundamental for their spiritual development.”
“Friendship with children is the hidden key for unlocking the nature of God in them.”
“I like Selver, respect him; saved him; suffered with him; fear him. Selver is my friend.”
“For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it.”
“Help each of us to bring comfort to people right next to us.”
“Wait for me. It was the same farewell as always. Wait for me. I shall come back. And as ever, I made the same reply. What else have I to do but wait for you? I shall be here, when you come again.”