Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

When in doubt, always start a new paragraph.

We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

I have absolutely no problem with the press criticising policies and the things that we do, the things that we say.

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.