“We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen”

“She isn't here, but aroundhere, in a deep raindisappearing.”

“And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn't possible.”

“Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.”

“Do you know how,sometimes, when you first wake up,your pulse is so thorough, so slow,that you, and the one who is with you, and the room, and the opening light all seem to swelland subside and swell inside your heart?”

“We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen”