“Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

“You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home”

“When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.”

“You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.”

“You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.”

“You gotta imagine what's never been.”