No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis

Usually my ideas are small.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.