You were never able to break her. She is the stone of this kingdom.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.

I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.