“God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.”

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”

“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

“I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.”

“His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.”

“I try, and I made it!”