Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.