Book Quotes: A Tangled Mercy

On loving your neighbor:

"[I'm] thinking how some people are real hard to think holy about." (pg. 145)

On marriage:

"But the true intimacy - how wide and how long and how deep.  There's a beauty, and there's a strength, you know, that grows only in a long walk together in the same direction." (pg. 388)

On adoption:

"That's how adoption works, Kate - a child gets born in your heart, and every ounce of your bone and your flesh and your soul becomes a part of that child room then on." (pg. 400)

On racial reconciliation:

"Her reaction then [to the news of MLK, Jr.'s assassination] and a hundred other such moments taught me early that the color of your own skin ought not to be the thing that determines what shatters your heart." (Author's Note)