But then it passed, as all things do.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything