Pg 26 - the very best of us can be done without

Pg 29 - They all joined him, loving few things better than caricatures

Pg 30 - No man ever born was exactly six feet. It's because Jesus Christ was exactly six feet and no man since could be the same height.

Pg 91 - Only a fool tells everything

Pg 95 - The only real conversations...she ever had were with the people she had loved.
the falls of the humble dices of life
these social exchanges had reduced themselves to the nightmarish vision of the idiotic and barely comprehensible gestures and grimaces of face and head and hand people make when they try to communicate through a closed window.

Pg 101 - hunger is good sauce

Pg 104 - ballsology

Pg 124 - she had been seduced far more often throughout her life by goodness than by evil

Pg 126 - being slowly crucified by time and care

Pg 177 - it seemed as a person grew older that the unknowable reality, God, was the one thing you could believe or disbelieve in with safety, it met you with imponderable silence and could never be reduced to the nothingness of certain knowledge

pg 193 - peace was not life, it was death

Pg 194 - the unendurable pettiness and degradation of her own failings raised to dignity and meaning in Christ's passion

Pg 204 - nothing in life is ever resolved once and for all but changes with the changing life

Pg 217 - she wanted to be understood, that was the old craving, but was it not an indulgence? How could anyone have time to understand her, they were as full of their own lives as she was of hers

Pg 221 - after the first shock, the incredulity of the death, the women, as at a wedding, took over.

Pg 222- there was such a bustle of activity about the death, and felt just a puppet in the show

Pg 223 - It's Elizabeth that's being covered and not me and I'm able to stand in the sun and watch

Pg 224 - To get back where we left off...in twenty-four hours the earth'll be back where it is now... ( )