“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.”

“Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When people start saying things like she must be a bad mother because of that mistake." .... "It's not fa...”

“I prefer a story to a prayer.”

“Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tti: "Yes. Tti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and...”

“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrt, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in nam...”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!”