Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.