“She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44).”

“Вообще-то Юаким чувствовал себя превосходно, но если бы ему сейчас пришлось пойти в школу, он бы заболел по-настоящему.— Мне больно, — сказал он.— Где? — испугался папа.— Там, где должны быть домашние уроки, — ответил Юаким.”

“No demon should smell like lavender.”

“If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles evil, how can faith know its own power? In my own pilgrimage, if I had to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of doubt, I will choose the former every time.”

“Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!”

“After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.”

“No doubt, when your dog will be your best friend. Then she'd add, But never underestimate the power of purrs.”