“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”

“But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.”

“The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.”

“In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.”

“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”

“Every memory we have changes slightly each time we think about it. We add stuff we learn in other places, or we forget stuff that doesn't seem important anymore. Or you think you remember something, like from your childhood, but actually you've just seen so many pictures of it, and your parents have told you about it, so you think you remember it, but you don't. A memory is a process. Instead of a thing. Like a story we tell ourselves that changes from the standpoint we're looking at it.”

“Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.”