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"I dunno-out of the way we feel about life. You and I ain't out to bust anybody's skull, or cut someone's throat in an economic way, we've dedicated ourselves to prayer..."

I found this quote interesting because it shows the very passive calm attitude they have towards people. So much so that it becomes abnormally kind. But if you look at it from a different perspective they are being quite hypocritical because throught the book all they do is speak of the ignorance of the common american, and suburban lifestyle. They are also speaking of how their way of life is superior to all others and they should sometime be rewarded for it.

Alvah said, "It all ends in tears anyway."

This is the first quote that is remarkably true and common yet I had never heard it said before. It is a grim but honest look at things. Most things do end in tears. From graduations to farewells, to the end of lives, tears are usually present. It is a distant way to look at sorrow, just as the emotion of the end of things. Alvah's six word line summed up the whole scene of Japhy leaving.