“It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.”

“We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.”

“This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants — virtuousness — or what she needs — protection.”

“If what we are doing isn't enough for you, I need you to tell me now.”

“Sometimes love isn't enough. And if it's not enough, what good is it?”

“and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people”