Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.