“I love.The most reckless thing of all.”

“... and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all.”

“Ky smiles then, a smile I've never seen before. It's the kind of daring, reckless smile that could make people follow him straight into a firing, a flood.”

“And then he says it, right there on the Hill, and of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all. 'I love you.”

“I believe, sometimes in spite of myself, in grace and better things to come and a time when we will all be whole.”

“I keep telling myself that, and most of the time I believe it.”

“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.”