Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.