“I will need more than this, O God. If you love me as Aneaxi said, please send me something to go on. Something soon.”

“I lie awake for a long time, wondering which would be more foolish, to prepare for something that may never happen, or not to prepare for something that might.”

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.”

“I knew someday you would realize your worth. Your worthiness.'I shake my head. 'Oh Ximena, he was right to choose me but not becuase of my worth...You, Cosme, Hector...were already willing to be heroes. But I would have done nothing, become nothing, were it not for this thing inside me. So you see, God picked me becuase I was unworthy.”

“He doesn’t love me yet, but in this place of death, in this precious moment of shared relief, he holds me.”

“I know you hate me. But don't let that make you stupid.”

“Has not God chosen those who are pained in this world to inherit his paradise? For it is through suffering we understand our need for his righteous right hand. Indeed, our spiritual needs outweigh our physical ones. Blessed be the name of God.”