“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”

“God could have kept Daniel out of the lion's den. But God has never promised to keep us out of hard places. What He has promised is to go with us through every hard place, and bring us through victoriously.”

“What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?”

“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”

“Each deity controlled different elements of the world order, so no one god had full control, and which deity was in charge fluctuated over time and place.”

“The first shot causes warm rain to fall on Diana's arms from the sky. The second plants a mirrored jewel in the left temporal lobe of her brain…a place she could have named on a quiz but which now seems to be the place where the future is imagined, the place where what would have been is.”