“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Summer coming like a car from down the highway.”

“Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.”

“What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.”

“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.”

“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)”

“Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.”

“But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.”

“Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.”

“An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“News told, rumors heard, truth implied, facts buried.”

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”