“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isnt really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.”

“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head, Winslow said. Just for a moment. Then youd know what all I cant find how to say.”

“...Helen sipped peppermint schnapps and considered the world made of her design. My religion is keeping peace, she thought. It hadn't begun that way, was nothing she'd planned, but now she saw that...”

“Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks dont trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all Gods got to remind us hes aliv...”

“Laws on killing, even God's demands, didn't allow for peace. Not always. There'd still be pain; missing that child would break her parents' hearts. But what Helen knew, what she'd seen in those woo...”

“The projector's beam lay warm on Walt's neck, and he knew they'd all been plucked from danger and love, from another time, another place, and set back into this dark, sticky-floored theater, in the...”

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect sel...”

“Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear...”

“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”