"Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers."
- K. Martin Beckner
"She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her."
"The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood."
"That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night."
"I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled."
"Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make,..."
"You can lock a lion up in a room, if you want to, but you'll still hear it growling and clawing to get out."
"Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only pictu..."
"But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead."
"I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won't hurt like it did a..."