“Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.”

“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”

“It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy”

“you’re lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You’re lucky that you’re happy, that you know how to be happy, that you’re a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?”

“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”

“...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”