“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

“some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind”

“Everybody has a story, Alison," he said. "Everybody has things they need to hide--sometimes even from themselves.”

“I hate the dark. It lets your mind imagine the scariest things hiding in it while in most cases there is nothing there.”

“This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.”