Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.