She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.