"But she didn't laugh. "When you have children," she said, staring at her glass, "you accept life. Do you accept life?..."

"If you really look at it, there's no way your life could be more messed up than by having a child who can't take care of..."

"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion an..."