I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

The Devil's out of fashion.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.