“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”

“What are we but our stories?”

“We all need stories. What happens in our daily lives changes our stories.”

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”

“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”

“For our improvement we need a mirror.”

“Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.”

“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”

“When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.”