No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.

Walk on, yes, but don’t walk away from people who need you.

Once you glimpsed the truth about yourself, your understanding was complete and you could finally be at piece.

I am the prayer.

Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn’t change anything.“It does, though,” said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. “Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”Not just in it. She was it.

There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.

From some angles, up is toward the earth and down toward the sky, and everything—people, horses, cathedrals, dreams—is suspended over the ceaseless void, barely hanging on.

You were naming my life, which is similar but not identical to saving.We name something to make it real, to give it meaning. You can name my life and I might still die. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

There's honest work to be done, Johnny," whispered Griss. "The world is full of work, waiting for you.