“Suddenly feeling overwhelmed, Talon said, ‘It doesn’t matter. They are all dead.’ He felt moisture gathering in his eyes and blinked. ‘It’s been a while since I’ve felt that.’Caleb nodded. ‘It never goes away, completely. But you’ll discover other things in life.”

“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.”

“But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, ‘The last truth is that there is no magic.”

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”