“It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.”

“One chance, I thought. There is no protection but there is difference. You stood there in those shoes and the tall man laughed and said he would take me to close the debt. I knew Senhor would not allow it. I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. I knelt before him. Hoping for a miracle. He said yes.It was not a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human. I stayed on my knees. In the dust where my heart will remain each night and every day until you understand what I know and long to tell you: to be given dominion over another is a hard thing, to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.”

“God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate.Mrs. Miracle”

“The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling would never understand.”

“Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.”

“God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.”