“Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.”

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.”

“And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that what he does and who he is isn't based on the past unless he wants it to be... No. That is the past, which has been seen differently through many different eyes and has become hazy and unclear, like a pond when stirred with a stick. Only the present moment is clear and free from prejudice.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

“You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.”

“If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.”