“The cry of my body for completeness, that is a cry to you.”

“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”

“We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars”

“She took the sea with herNot beaches but the greyrelentless Irish sea,its rhythm and the crying gulls.”

“Are they supposed to cry so much and giggle every second when they're not crying? They never quit finding something so funny that I thought it'd break my eardrums a few times.”

“So every dayI was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God,one of which was you.”

“The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.”