“I found plain truth very interesting.”

“you cannot take something i trust you with and use it against me-- plain truth”

“In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.”

“Everything you said, Ellie, it's true. I should be very angry. I was, for a time, but now I'm not. Now I've gotten past my own selfishness to where I've got to help her. See, when you're Plain, you don't put yourself forward. You just don't do it, because that would be Hochmut–puffing yourself up–and the truth is there's always others more important than you. So Katie, when she hears others telling lies about her and this baby, she won’t want to fight back, or stand up for herself. I am here to stand up for her.”

“I only just found you, I can't lose you now”

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. ”

“I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.”