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The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs, and forget that inside they are strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing.

The footnotes are SO useful and make the book even more enjoyable then it is on its own by explaining references and word usage of the time.

"If we're trying to decide what advice is actually good for our marriage, Jesus tells us the answer: Look at the fruit."

She hesitated only for a moment—a moment in which risk and reason, fear, and a kind of buoyant, eager curiosity collided visibly across her face.

“A man with a self revels in a woman who stands as his peer.”

But it's not always sensible to be sensible.

"She had to do something to make it right. She did not yet know what, nor how, but love has a way of leaving people no choice."