“I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.”

“How funny we are, I thought, the way we dance about each other, each afraid of being hurt by the other.”

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

“...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?”

“I didn't want to wake up either. We both held onto each other. We looked at each other before we closed our eyes and let go of her.”

“I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.”