Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.