“He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.""I'm only a kid!" I...”

“I'll never see Ivy alive again.But she's still everywhere. In every drop of bubbling swamp water. In every leaf hanging from every tree. In every speck of swamp mud. In every blade of grass. In eve...”

“If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.”

“Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.”

“In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silencewishing, waiting, hoping, praying.”

“At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!”