“It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.”

“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life at the same time. What would happen to cannibals, and the people they ate? You couldn't bring them all back at the same time, because the cannibals are made of the people they have eaten. You could have one but not the other. Ha.' I looked at Rowan. 'That's a good example of a paradox.”

“You’re apologizing? Seriously, what happened to you? Have you been taken over by a pod person?”

“I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.”

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

“Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.”