“I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.”

“If we are to survive, I must start and end my war this same day.”

“An uncertain warrior is no warrior at all.”

“When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.”

“Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.”

“Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.”

“A married man is a preoccupied man.”

“There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.”

“Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared.”

“What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.”

“Some are born to love, and some to fight. How can I ever succeed at both?”