"She waits until her brokenness can break her."

"A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone."

"What hurts us is what heals us."

"A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow…"

"This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief"

"Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more t…"

"To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say."