I am Haley. I live in a big small world.

It taught me that no love, not even that of a man for his wife may be so deep and terrible and self-sacrificing as the love of a father for his daughter.

Well… information is only as good as what you can do with it.

But the girl, ah—that was a different matter. He did not reason here. He knew that she was created to be protected, and that he was created tp protect her.

When you’re human, Ark, I love you; but somehow it seems as though you had forgotten how to be human for the last twenty years.

He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.

Ah, John, i wish that I might be a man with a man’s philosophy, but I am but a woman seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words.

As she took up the little live baby of Alice Clayton she dropped the dead body of her own into the empty cradle; for the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild breast which the dead could not still.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.

My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.