“Your safest place in the world is in my arms, where everything stops making noise.”

“Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.”

“Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”

“Here is the desert. In this silence, everything speaks to me: and in your noise, everything falls silent.”

“The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger coincide.”

“Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.”

“Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer”

“In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

“If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.”

“The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.”