"Being in love is a very strange thing."

“You have no dower," he said. "Live, Keturah. Go home." "But I do have a dower," I said plainly. "This is my dower, Lord Death; the crown of flowers I will never wear at my wedding." He knelt on one knee before me. "The little house I would have had of my own, to furnish and clean. That, too, is part of my dower." "I will give you the world for your footstool," he said. "And most precious of all, I give you the wee baby I will never hold in my arms.”

“When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.”

“They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative”

“The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.”

“Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.”

“But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.”

“It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”