“There is always another way, make sure you look in all directions before deciding to give up”

“-On creating a false identity for Pheobe-“A widow,” Ava insisted.”How did her husband die?” Greer asked.”I hardly know,” Ava said with a shrug as she rocked Jonathan in her arms. “How do men typically die? A fall from a horse or some such thing.””I scarcely believe scores of men are falling to their deaths from their saddles,” Greer said drily.”

“You will go through these periods in life when you sit alone with tears stinging your cheeks, questioning God. Why is this happening to me? Why, when I have done nothing wrong? Why am I being punished? Why would you give me so much pain? You will not understand while you are suffering. You won’t understand why you are alone. But a few months later, you will see how much better off you are because of that horrible injustice done to you.”

“Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.”

“I don’t know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say ‘Well done'” Henry said in a tired voice.”

“Hope is sometimes a fickle thing, my dear.” The endearment felt painful when spoken as part of such a heartbreaking conversation. “We hang on to it because we need to, even when there really is no point.”

“Sometimes you hold on to things, not because you want to keep them, but because they are difficult to let go.”

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”

“Live with love, walk with love, speak with love and listen with love. You will find that life is a fountain of love, joy and happiness.”

“My God is not just a permanent God but a seasonal and emergency God.”

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

“I am hopeful; I see seeds of success germinating with every failure.”

“Please, let me take you home. You’re drunk.”“I am not.” I shoved him, spilling some kind of delicious poison on him. “Go home and have a wild time with Ms. Scarlet. In the bedroom. With the—”“Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.”

“Someone died today. Someone was born today. It’s not just a day—it’s a moment.”

“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance – almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it. To those who rejoice in the abundance and intricacy in Creation, this is a source of joy, as it is to those who rejoice in freedom…To those would-be solvers of “the human problem,” who hope for knowledge equal to (capable of controlling) the world, it is a source of unremitting defeat and bewilderment. The evidence is overwhelming that knowledge does not solve “the human problem.” Indeed, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests – with Genesis – that knowledge is the problem. Or perhaps we should say instead that all our problems tend to gather under two questions about knowledge: Having the ability and desire to know, how and what should we learn? And, having learned, how and for what should we use what we know? (pg. 183, People, Land, and Community)”