"There is very little said about how repetitious grief is. (p64)"

"All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. (p59)"

"Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow."

"Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life."

"In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is al…"

"We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or mat…"

"Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would …"

"Any judge knows there are many kinds of justice—for instance, ideal justice as opposed to the best-we-can-do justice,…"

"When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I li…"

"The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. (p29)"