Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.
Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.