“Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.”

“Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. Were just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to ...”

“Youve got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. Youre only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at som...”

“It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”

“How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and therefore ...”