The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.

Pick a side? You done picked the wrong side.

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

No one can share in your sorrow.

God is good and I am always loved.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.