What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.

I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

The night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at the stars, held down by an insidious, weightless lacing of snowflakes. I gazed idly at the moon and wondered if it truly had the power to sway the will of men.

He had made a vow to defend his country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
He’d never expected to fight unknown beings that weren’t human.