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Had anyone walked in at the right moment and listened carefully, they might have heard her whisper, "Good morning, St. Minnette. You are strong. And you are brave. And you are kind. Even when you are sad."

"Shifting seasons of need can feel like they erode that foundational equality. If one person starts to fall behind, to need more, he or she can feel like the junior partner. It's hard to tolerate interdependence if one is working from the assumption that a grown-up balances their books and doesn't ask more than he or she can repay." p. 36

"Someone stands right here, right now, or we all fall." He glanced back at his still motionless blond sons.

"I'll be a minute. Now go on. And if I'm longer, help each other walk the right road, whatever the toll.

Kneel for no evil.

Treat your heartbeats like pennies and your souls like gold."

(ch. 5)

"In silence, we let joy sing itself out."

There is a hollow in my insides that later, when I have had time to think, I will probably fall into and drown.

Recognizing and honoring the differences between men and women means putting dependence at the heart of our account of what it means to be human. Dependence marks women more obviously and more intimately, but it is also impossible to tell the truth about who men are or treat them justly without accounting for our mutual dependence.

No just society can be built on the basis of a false anthropology. p.19

"Charity, you argue like a corkscrew."

"In that fine place, in the ripened Indian summer weather, those two once again choose us. In circumstances where smaller spirits might let envy corrode liking, they declare their generous pleasure in our company and our good luck....We've been invited into their lives, from which we'll never be evicted, or evict ourselves."

"Both of us were peculiarly susceptible to friendship."

One idea still throbbed life-like within me--a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered; but no energy was found to express them:--

"Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help."