“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”

“Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.”

“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”

“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”

“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”

“And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole.”

“Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.”