All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.