“Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).”
“Is it possible to be totally partial?”
“It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?”
“He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.”
“Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.”
“He’d done it like he did everything else—with passion and total disregard for how much it might embarrass her.”