“My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.”

“You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.”

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.”

“I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.”

“I am doing this so that you remember not to run from me, and as exciting as it is, I never want you to run from me!”

“It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had ruined my life, in a kind of quiet way--a little lie, probably not so vital, insidiously separating me from everyone I loved. ”