“Such talk makes you think of radiation like water in a pool: if it’s four feet high you’re safe, if it’s eight feet high you drown. But in fact radiation levels are much more like speed limits on the highway – thirty miles per hour is safer than eighty, but not as safe as twenty, and the only way to be completely safe is not to get in the car.”
“You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!”
“It’s when you’re safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
“I am your husband, I will keep you safe and I will do it by keeping my feet on this earth, breathing the air and being there to make you feel safe. Do you understand this?”
“and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,”
“O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places"."Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.”