“I don’t think there’s anything sadder than when two people are meant to be together and something intervenes.”

“But wouldn't it be lovely to watch two people fall in love?”

“I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.”

“Altogether, a pleasant place, marred by activities of unpleasant people whose qualities, perhaps, are sad reflections of sadder environments.”

“But when there’s light, there’s darkness as well.”

“Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.”

“An onion can make people cry, but an entertaining novel can make people cry and laugh, and smile, and relax.” by David Bishop.“If fast food restaurants sold men, he would be the ninety-nine-cent special.” Maddie Richards in The Beholder.“Money is something about which one can be more principled after they have an adequate supply.” Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.“I have always had trouble recorking an opened curiosity.” Matt Kile in Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.”