“Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything theres a payment of time or money or soul!”

“She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.”

“Ghosts! gasped Alice. Real, live ghosts?No! Not real, live ghosts! Spooky, dead ghosts!”

“I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.”

“Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.”

“[A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.”

“Wipe those tears, as they have cleansed your soul.”

“We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.”

“Courtneys emotions had always been controlled and steady, logical and levelheaded. But around Brett, it was like she was on a high-speed roller coaster with steep drops and corkscrew turns, and she...”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”