“Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.”

“If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.”

“If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.”

“People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”

“That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you know it was going to be the herpetologists who got there first.”

“As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.”