Hillary Jordan

“Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became…

— Hillary Jordan

“How I wished sometimes that I could join him in his stark, right-angled world, where everything was either right or wrong and…

— Hillary Jordan

“She experienced a moment of incandescent wonder, a sense of being connected, not just to these people, but to everyone and everything…

— Hillary Jordan

“The Bible is full of thou-shalt-nots. Thou shalt not kill, that's one. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, that's…

— Hillary Jordan

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

— Hillary Jordan

Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say…

— Hillary Jordan

“I give whatever I can these days, and not just out of guilt or duty. That's what it is to love someone:…

— Hillary Jordan

“That wasn't enough. They weren't enough. Nor, she soon realized, was Will, though by every rational measure he ought to have been.…

— Hillary Jordan

“When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let…

— Hillary Jordan

“Hannah thought back to her first time with Aidan, remembering how utterly certain she'd felt then, how confident that she was carrying…

— Hillary Jordan

“You got to go along to get along.”

— Hillary Jordan

“I had a few pricks of conscience- seeing Henry's pajama bottoms hanging forlornly from a peg in our bedroom, his comb on…

— Hillary Jordan

“She'd been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest [...] If women's pants were suggestive, men's were equally…

— Hillary Jordan

“You been forgetting Who's in charge and who ain't. So here's what I'm gone do: I'm gone send a storm so big it rips…

— Hillary Jordan

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

— Hillary Jordan

“But I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have…

— Hillary Jordan

What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if

— Hillary Jordan

“I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.”

— Hillary Jordan

“A bruised silence descended on the van.”

— Hillary Jordan

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion…

— Hillary Jordan

“[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets…

— Hillary Jordan

“She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.”

— Hillary Jordan

“The creature was weeping, and who could blame it, as hideous and abject and lonely as it was? But its tears, Hannah…

— Hillary Jordan

“Reverend Easter waved her hand dismissively. “It doesn’t matter to God what we call ourselves, or even what we call Him. We’re…

— Hillary Jordan

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

— Hillary Jordan