once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open. (p98) - Louise Erdrich

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic. (p111)

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring to other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life — disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

All that held him together now was the crowd, and when the parade was finally over and they drew apart he would disperse, too, in so many pieces that not even the work of his own clever hands could shape him back the way he was. (p315)