“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front of you.”

“In places like this, it's hard to imagine that the world can be so ugly,' Thomas said. 'This is how it was meant to be,' Priya replied. 'The ugliness is our own fault.”

“Healing, she found, required motion, intention, purpose - the reassurance that life was still worth living.”

“The sights and sounds of human depravity were too much to forget. Is this hell? She wondered fleetingly. If not, where is God?”

“Evil prevails where good people do nothing.”

“To do nothing would be to die one day at a time.”

“The most dangerous thing is illusion.”