“Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most important reason to love something.”

“For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.”

“She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?”

“Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.”

“It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her.”

“It is impossible to say why we love something or someone. We can come up with reasons if we have to, but the important part happens in the dark, beyond our control. We just know when it is there. And when it goes away.”