My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.