“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were”

“When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.”

“In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.”

“What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.”

“The simple exchange of legal tender for goods and services--was there anything more elemental, yet more beautiful? Money. No matter what anyone said, it was the answer to everything. When it came down to it, there was no human interaction that wasn't, at its core, a transaction.”

“Everything we had built up came crashing down. In one split second, everything turned into nothing.”