It was good and nothing good is ever lost.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

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.

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.