“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

“Let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave.""What the hell did she just say?""I think she just threatened us with the wrath of God.”

“And it was no shame to her that she so dreamed. It was no shame that she called before her, one by one, those who had asked her to cross with them the threshold (of marriage) and those who might still ask her. It was no shame that, while her heart said always, "no," she still waited - waited for one whom she knew not, but only knew that she would know him when he came. And it was no shame to her that, even while this was so, she saw herself in the years to come a wife and mother. ”

“She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame. I truly believed there was something unnatural about her - a madness only her children could see. My yearning was not to understand it, but to escape it.”

“She's as funny as a toothache”

“Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.”