Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

Time had changed the magical to mundane

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success