- Daniel Holden: I didn't really understand the allegory back then. I will say this mother.
- Janet Talbot: Yes?
- Daniel Holden: Plato was onto something.
- Janet Talbot: He was considered fairly astute.
- Daniel Holden: That it wasn't worth pondering.
- Tawney Talbot: But of course it is! That's what makes us human.
- Daniel Holden: I think what makes us human is the ability to choose to ponder or not to ponder.
- Daniel Holden: Finding peace in the not knowing seems strangely more righteous than the peace that comes from knowing.
- Tawney Talbot: I can see and feel God in all things.
- Daniel Holden: Like Thomas Aquinas.
- Tawney Talbot: I don't know much about him.
- Daniel Holden: He felt that God revealed himself in nature.
- Tawney Talbot: Yes, yes, that's what I feel, in a sense.
- Daniel Holden: He believed that supernatural revelation is faith, and natural revelation is reason, and the two are not contradictory, but complementary.
- Daniel Holden: [in awe of the huge yarn selection at the box store] I think it's time.
- Janet Talbot: Time?
- Daniel Holden: Time we got into yarn.
- Janet Talbot: [playing along] Oh my, oh yes! I just hope we're not too late.
- Daniel Holden: Late?
- Janet Talbot: The yarn bubble.
- Daniel Holden: Well, we can always fall back on flip flops.
- Tawney Talbot: Was there a church in prison?
- Daniel Holden: There was, but I was only ever allowed visits by the chaplain.
- Tawney Talbot: So you would meet with him?
- Daniel Holden: I would have met with the executioner had he stopped by.
- Tawney Talbot: Did you ever talk about where you think you'll go when you die.
- Daniel Holden: It was kind of expected in the setting.
- Tawney Talbot: You're different from how I thought you'd be.
- Daniel Holden: Different how?
- Tawney Talbot: I don't know. You're above things, like you're pure.
- Daniel Holden: Far from that.
- Tawney Talbot: Could you ever accept Christ into your heart?
- Daniel Holden: I don't think Buddha would mind making room, or Confucius. Nietzsche might grumble.
- Daniel Holden: It does something to you, not to be touched in any positive way for so long. You begin to vacillate between being repelled by touch, and seeking it out in any form, even the most negative.
- Tawney Talbot: I'm so sorry.
- Daniel Holden: Out here, you... you're the only touch that soothed me.
- Pastor Beau: We just think the world of Tawney here. Of course, we just kind of put up with Teddy, you know?
- Daniel Holden: I understand.