“A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.”
“A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what can and cannot be done to her.”
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
“and she said, ‘So there you are!’ She asked Frank what he thought he was doing, and he said, ‘Experimenting.’ That’s what Frank always used to say when people asked him what he thought he was doing. He always said, ‘Experimenting.’ (p. 15)”
“Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.”
“I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”