You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard...the words..they sound alike." What do you mean?" Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.