“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isnt really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.”

“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head, Winslow said. Just for a moment. Then youd know what all I cant find how to say.”

“...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that...”

“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woo...”

“Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobodyd know me except for what they saw up on that screen. Id just be light up on the silv...”

“The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the...”

“I don't think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written by an atheis...”

“What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...”

“Some prospects for success seems bleak but are not with hard work”

“Humanity was awful; humanity made you hurt. Humanity was a weakness that would kill everyone, one way or another.”

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism....”

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”