I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.

I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.