Favorite+Quotes

This page is dedicated to our favorite quotes from the novel. To add to this page, simple click EDIT (above), type in your quote(s) and page numbers and then click save (top right).

Kristina: "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted" (page 114).

Kristina: "It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection." ~The Bhagavad Gita

Elaine: "You have the opposite of poker face. You have, like...miniature golf face." (pg 41)

Elizabeth: "Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one." (kinda sad...)

Elizabeth: "The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness."