“A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?”
“That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.”
“Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.”
“...one of the most accurate ways to detect and measure the activity of God is to note the amount of opposition that is present.”
“For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.”
“Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.”