“Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.”

“Oh,that's right. You're a...what did you call it? Ah, a ghost hunter. You don't have to see things to believe them."Adam's gaze locked onto the persecutor's. "Maybe you've got that backward," he said. "Maybe it's just that I believe things you cant see.”

“A level of a house, his father has told him, is called a story. Nathaniel likes that. It makes him feel like maybe he is living between the covers of a book himself. Like maybe everyone in every home is sure to get a happy ending.”

“What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?”

“Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.”

“Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.”

“You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.”