This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

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.

I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

Money is not an issue to me. My mother always tells me, money, it comes and it goes.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.