The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.