I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

It’d be a mistake,” Lee said. “I think maybe you have to make a few,” Merrin said. “If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make.

...but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...

I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.

To live for others was to live fully; to live only for yourself, a cold kind of death.

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.