rebirth

Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)

The young have little use for the concept of rebirth, yet the older they get the more appealing the concept becomes.

HereYou always belonged here.You were theirs, certain as a rock.I__ the one who worriesif I fit in with the furniture and the landscape. But I __ollow too muchthe devices and desires of my own heart.__lready the curves in the roadare familiar to me, and the mountainin all kinds of light, treating all people the same.and when I come over the hill, I see the house, with its generous and firm proportions, smokerising gaily from the chimney.I feel my life start up again, like a cutting when it growsthe first pale and tentativeroot hair in a glass of water.

If you take my right hand, you can start over. You will be reborn as a different character; your personality will develop along a different path. Your story will be irretrievably altered. And this time, there will be no mistakes. You will live, love, and die, blissfully unaware.

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?

He knew his vampire 'sisters' would drain the girls until they were nearly dead, then feed them some of their own blood. That__ when the turning would start - as vampire and human blood mixed - and the parched agony of the Dark Kiss began.