How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.
In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees
When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
The book really comes to life in the rewriting.