“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. ”

“Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.”

“There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil,are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities.”

“The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.”

“Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.”