“It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I swayed in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood loosing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power that first moved it is withdrawn.”

“It is possible that God is the way Annie Payne used to lean her old head against my shoulder...Drew's arms holding me...Ron Dunham walking out of the woods hand in hand with a child lost, then found. It is possible that God is my neighbor with her pan of brownies standing on my doorstep. It is entirely possible, that is, that the God I serve and worship with all my body, all my mind, all my soul, and all my spirit is love...It's enough. It's all the God I need.”

“I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.”

“My soul left my body, and my body left my clothes and went streaking through the streets.”

“As my body recalled my soul, I began to quiver with pain and gasp for air.”

“All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.”