“Let those strikes of lightning come so we will quickly know what leaves us.”
“When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both”
“Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.”
“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
“We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.”
“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? ”