“Can you see the pond?"From up here, I can. It is a piece of sky, lying on the ground. When Heaven breaks, who fixes it?”
“We can continue to say to our girls as they grow into women, 'Come up here and scrunch under this glass ceiling with me.' Or we can say to them, 'Let me break this ceiling so when you come up here with me, we can stand up straight under the open sky.”
“You see, you and I are the only people here who walk quite quietly and peaceably on solid ground. The nuns walk in heaven and your husband -- in darkness.”
“Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.”
“Can you see the fireworks from Heaven?”
“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”