"There is nothing perfect...there is only life." (August Boatwright, p. 256)"The music she played was the kind that sawed through you, cutting into the secret chambers of your heart and setting the sadness free." (Lily Owens, p. 266)
"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language, 'I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin." (Lily Owens, p. 277)
"Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is." (Lily Owens, p. 285)
"When you're unsure of yourself...when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying, 'Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.' She's the power inside you, you understand? And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love--but to PERSIST in love."
(August Boatwright, p. 289)
What a great book--thanks Melanie-Pearl for bringing it to me!
