“If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.”

“This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.”

“sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.”

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

“Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.”