Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.