And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.