“Please God, please God, can you please tell me why? I ask this of you, yet in my heart, I know.”

“The mind can take in many things, but it cannot take in God.”

“She did not believe in random. God does not deal in random.”

“She opened her heart and her home to her Purpose, and waited for it to come in.”

“The mirror done broke and your life looking back at you from them sharp glass pieces.”

“Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa”—my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault—as she pounded her fist to her chest three times as if pounding shut a door to keep her guilt from escaping.”

“The could never have explained Bonaventure anyway because there is no scientific word for miraculous.”