“She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.”

“[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved”

“I realize the selfishness of children. We love them, and we revolve around their universe, but they don't revolve around ours.”

“So often, she had found herself transported by music. She would get lost, lose herself to the time and fullness of the tones, the way it conjured up air around her as she listened or as she played. But this, she thought, one did not get lost in this music.One was delivered by it.”

“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”

“Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!”