“We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.”

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

“You get to thinking that maybe the diving line shouldn't be animals and people but good and bad.”

“It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.”

“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

“It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.”

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”