“I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense.”

“They were made by Miss Lucy!”

“George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.”

“I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.”

“Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.”

“The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.”