"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"
"Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered."
"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."