Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.
You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
And always, there was the magic of learning things.
A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.