“What is he planning to do with that quarter? Hurl it at my face and hope to put an eye out? With Romeo anything can become a weapon─love, trust . . . loose change.”

“When we give our hopes and dreams to GodAnd then leave them in His hand, We can trust His love and care for usTo fulfill what He has planned.”

“Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.”

“What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?" "Because only Jace can piss someone off that much.”

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love never fails.”

“I love her handbag. Inside are papers and her wallet and cigarettes and at the bottom, where she never looks, there is loose change, loose mints, specs of tobacco from her cigarettes. Sometimes I bring the bag to my face, open it and inhale as deeply as I can.”