“The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives”

“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.”

“I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”

“I always wonder about raindrops.I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.I am a raindrop.My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.”

“You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.”

“I saw that sign,' said Dwayne, "and I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on the earth for - to find out how much a man could take without breaking.”