It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget. [...] So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.