“I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God...”

“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'Emma Darwin to husband Charles”

“We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie”

“We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie”

“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries ...”

“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16”