“I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on." ,”

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, th...”

“The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.”

“She is so white-hot furious she can barely see. She stokes the fire of her hatred, feeding it tidbits about bigoted Dina and spineless mushmouth Ralph, because she knows that just beyond the rage i...”

“She has never tried to find out what happened to her family her mother or her relatives in Ireland. But over and over, Molly begins to understand as she listens to the tapes, Vivian has come back ...”

“So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud."It cer...”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”