“It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“How did roses ever happen?”

“In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.”

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed, profoundly, how he perceived their motivations, their place in the world.”

“I challenge you, instead of asking with an attitude of doubt, “If the Universe or God loved me, why would this bad thing have happened or be happening?” ask with an attitude of curiosity “Assuming the Universe or God loves me, why did this thing happen or why is it happening?””

“This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.”

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”

“What really happened to her? How did she die?”