But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.

“I love you,' Marius whispered suddenly, passionately as a mortal man might. 'I …”

“I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if …”

“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit …”

“So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you wer…”