“See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.”

“I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until I became a Christian.- Ruth McBride”

“My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.”

“And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.”

“God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.”

“You could see him coming from a distance, appearing out of nowhere like an angel, his silhouette seeming to rise from the ground in the simmering heat . . .”

“God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me." - The Dreamer”