“If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.”

“The roles could have easily been reversed. I wondered how God had chosen me to be born into such luxury when this little girl had been born into such hopelessness.”

“If God had meant for us to have fiberglass boats, he would have planted fiberglass trees.”

“Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God has no name...We fight and kill each other so readily, yet if I had been born in the East, would I not believe the stories they believe, and if they had been born here, would they not be Christians?”

“Losing your co-remember meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before”

“We'd lived our lives thinking that there was a special way of living for people who had been discarded.”