[at their High School graduation, Enid and Rebecca encounter Melorra, an incredibly cute and annoying classmate] Melorra: Oh, we have to get together this summer. Enid: Yeah. That'll definitely happen.
[At the graduation ball, Enid watches a loner classmate eating a slice of cake by himself] Enid: God, just think, we'll never see Dennis again. Rebecca: [shrugs] Good. Enid: No, really think about that. It's actually totally depressing.
Ed Crane: I was turning into Ann Nirdlinger, Big Dave's wife. I had to turn my back on the old lady, on the veils, on the ghosts, on the dead. Before they all sucked me in.
First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for...
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.
Good stories take your imagination to anywhere
We're nobody's dirty little secret.
People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
Good writing is always new.
Belief traps or frees us.
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
I was here on earth because I chose to be.
You don't choose a book the book chooses you
A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.
The words you can't find, you borrow.
We are not poor. We just don't have any money!
...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
