It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. 'The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart.' That's a fact.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required