Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

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.

It takes enormous courage and humility to be open to others to find out who we really are.

Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.

He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the other way around.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

I mean the Internet is like the luckiest thing - we have everything at our fingertips right now.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.