“Amazing how the soup pots of small townsare just waiting to boil over anything at all.”

“God helps those who help themselves.'...If God waits around to seeif we can pull off miracles without him, then I concludethat Godis playing games with us.”

“We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses,those carved from our hands, our sweat,and those not of our own making.”

“...a person can't tame God. He's wild as a lion. He'll haunt you.”

“Now I will know alwaysthe thrill of a kiss,and know what it is I am cursed to live without.”

“(N.B. I think this is from a hymn.)O joy that seekest me through pain,I cannot close my heart to thee;I trace the rainbow through the rain,And feel the promise is not vain,That morn shall tearless be.”

“[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour, they must teach her how to eat.”