“If they believe it in the Bible, I don't see why they shouldn't believe it from me.”

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

“Aren't you afraid you will be damned?''I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith.”

“What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.”

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.”

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”