“Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.”

“Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?""Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.”

“Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.”

“The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.”

“What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.”

“Real life isn’t like those comic books you love so much.”

“I love him, I truly do. I feel it in my bones, in my soul, with all my heart. It's just like all those sentiments that I've read about in the past in those Hallmark cards.”