“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”

“Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying to fly, and a rush of heat that made her dizzy. And something else, something fragile as a soap bubble, and just as beautiful. Joy, in the middle of all this horror and heartbreak. “Yes,” she whispered back. “I promise.” And she kissed him, and kissed him, and kissed him, while the sun came up and bathed Morganville in one last, shining day.”

“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.”

“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.”

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”

“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.”

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”