And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.