“God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.”

“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. Fear only has as much power as we give it space.”

“It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.”

“When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels.He will send Magdalena.Then take her away.”

“We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.”

“If there is a will there is an A.”

“Every heart is much the same, We tell ourselves down here, The same chambers fed by veins, The same maze of love and fear.”