Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

What in life can love not penetrate?

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

But man invents nothing God did not create first.