“When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.”

“P.M.+H.O.I.D.S.T.It means me and Poppy belong together. That's what the top letters stand for: P.M. is for Poppy Morgan and H.O. is for Harrison Opoku. When you put + between them it means those two people go together like a sum. That's what Poppy told me. I.D.S.T. stands for If Destroyed Still True. That means if somebody rubs them out they still count. Nobody can destroy it, it lasts forever.”

“A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.”

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

“There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.”

“I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.”