The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.