“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”

“Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.”

“whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her”

“She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipher...”

“The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.”

“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”

“Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never ...”

“Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.”