“I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.”
“Cut the chatter!' interrupted Melnick, fiercely. 'Don't you know librarians can't stand noise? For them, noise is like waving a red rag in front of a bull.”
“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”
“True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.”
“This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.”
“Grace is having a commitment to- or acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish.”