Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.