“It was like drowning, only from the inside out.”

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”

“The Lord works from the inside out.”

“hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”

“What is government? From the outside it looks like a security system based on the marriage of land and people, From the inside, it looks like and attempts to create a community. A government is like an oyster, hard on the outside and soft on the inside, and the outside and inside are utterly dependent on each other.”

“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”

“Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.”

“My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.”

“Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.”

“Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.”