That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation.

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late.

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.