“She hated having a heart. It was just an organ, she knew. An organ of the human body. Hearts didn't have really break. Emotion lay in the soul.”

“Lord knows---and we both know --- that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion. ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within. ... Catholic, cattolico--- it means universal. Too often we forget that. ”

“Evil lies in the hearts of mankind!”

“Oh, Lord, she thought. This was crazy. She was being haunted by one ghost and guarded by another.”

“Halloween season. The season of the witch, so many thought. And, in legend, the night when souls could return to earth...And try to linger on.But the dead weren't really returning, the living created evil.”

“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion. ”

“A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.”