“There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation.”

“I knew then that Jocelyn would never come back to me, because of you. You are the only thing in the world she ever loved more than she loved me. And because of that she hates me. And because of that, I hate the sight of you”

“God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.”

“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

“Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.”

“The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.”

“The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.”