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.

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.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

His lordship can eat my fat—

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

I'm going to have my family after I play football.