“I think common-looking people are the best in the world. That's why the Lord makes so many of them.”
“Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be--- EXTRAORDINARY.”
“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”
“Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications.”
“He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.”