“The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.”

“Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be”

“All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!”

“Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.”

“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”

“Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.”

“Everything is in the process of becoming something else. It’s the law of change.” I briefly kissed Livvie’s eyelids before she could open them. “I’m in the process of becoming something else, Livvie. I hope it’s something good, something far removed from the monster you knew.”