“I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best be identified with the creativity of the female heart.”

“And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.”

“How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.”

“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.”

“You are necessary to that end, and to me...you are all I have of the garden. You are the image of me and of the One. And if you have wronged, then I have surely repaid your wrong twice over.”

“The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?”

“I wanted to be alone with the One. The One who scaled then careened from the heights of the Mount. The One who raised up the man from the mud. The One who fashioned me from a part of the man and knew me more intimately than even the adam.”