"It turned out the priest had stories stacked up like dinner napkins. Father Sullivan said that they belonged to Teddy, hundreds of stories waiting to be unfolded. "
"The three of them were bound into an inextricable knot: the living and the dead and the life everlasting. Each one led him to the other, and any member of the trinity he loved simply increased his love for all three."
"This was not the workings of disbelief. It was instead a final, joyful realization of all he had been given."
" 'She didn't give you away', Teddy said. 'She saved you. She loves you.' They were all three sorry he had put it that way since it raised the question of people only keeping the children they loved."
" 'How can there still be fish swimming around that nobody's even seen yet?' It unnerved her, the thought that things weren't settled, that life itself hadn't been completely pinned down to a cork board and labeled."
from Run by Ann Patchett
