"This wasn't the first time that I've come close to death, but it was the first time that I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved."
Chap. 1, p. 1

"Grandfather had said quietly-not rebukingly, just quietly—'As St. Augustine says: if you think you understand, it is in God.' "
Chap. 1, p. 12

"Only a year ago, Leo knew what God thought, and what he and everybody else ought to do on every occasion, and I liked him much better this way, though life used to be easier for him when he knew all the answers."
Chap. 1, p. 35

"And I discovered that there is something almost more intimate about crying that way with someone than there is about kissing, and I knew that I'd never again be able to think of Leo as nothing but a slob."
Chap. 1, . 37

"Resurrection has...