“We tried to tell him,' Toronto says.'You made fun of him,' Mazzarella points out.'That was how we tried to tell him.”

“It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.”

“Long day today,' she says.'Every day's the same length, sweetie.”

“Everything you do means something about you.”

“I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.”

“Love is hard. We try to love one another. But generally the quality and quantity of our love for one another is found wanting, because we find it difficult, if not impossible, to look beyond those things that are ugly and unlovable in those we try to love. Even though the things that are ugly and unlovable in ourselves are the very things that cause us to cry out for love.”

“Ψ Some say that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to Him. Works for me. Ψ”