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“Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful and useful blessings of the world”.

«On the contrary, I have nothing against God… of course, God’s merely a hypothesis… but… I confess that He’s necessary to maintain order… for world order and so forth… if He didn’t exist, one would have to invent him.”

I’m glad that my young man turned out to be less than rational at this critical moment, because a clever man will always return in time to reason, but if love doesn’t appear in a young man’s heart at such an exceptional moment, when will it occur?

- they will die in peace, will expire quietly in your name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret and for their own happiness attract them with promises of an eternal heavenly reward. Because if there really were anything in the other world, it would not be for people like them.”

“And everyone will be happy, all the millions of creatures, except for the 100K or so who are called upon to rule over them. Because only we, we who are the keepers of their secrets, only we will be unhappy. There will be millions of happy children, and a 100K sufferers who have taken I. Themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil. -

“But even in this you estimated man too highly. Because all men are, of course, nothing but slaves, even though they were created as rebels. Look around and judge for yourself (…), is there anyone at all you have raised up to your level? I give you my word that man is created weaker and biker than you imagined!”

«I could see her little eyes burning with fire - the fire of gentle indignation.”

"(...) Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things."

“ (…) She had all the charm and freshness of youth, but she was not a child; and if she loved him, she loved him consciously as a woman ought to love. Another point: she was not only far from being worldly, but had an unmistakable distaste for worldly society, and at the same time she knew the world, and had all the ways of a woman of the best society. “

“I want to enrich medicine with a new word: Arbitskur.

Well, but you don’t need it, I should fancy.

No, but for all sorts of nervous invalids.”

“I felt her body straining, straining to meet mine and I felt my own contracting and drawing away and I knew that I had begun the long fall down. I stepped away from her. She swayed where I had left her, like a puppet dangling from a string.”

“”Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.”
(…) “You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don’t go there?”
He laughed. “Well isn’t it true? You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you can never go back.””

“”Maybe you’ll be lonely again,” she said, finally. “I guess I won’t mind if you come looking for me.” She wrote the strangest smile I had ever seen. It was pained and vindictive and humiliated, but she inexpertly smeared across a grimace a bright, girlish gaiety - as rigid as the skeleton beneath her flabby body. It fate ever allowed Sue to reach me, she would kill me with just that smile.”

“You are right about what you said - we are thirty in our hearts, before all the disappointment, all the ways it turned out to be so much more painful than we thought it would’ve, but the again, it has all been magic.”

“I told my daughter recently that my grief has been an unbearable noise in my head for decades, and yet now, finally, I have written this letter to you and I’m surprised to find it is finally quiet.”

“(…)
In all tucked in here with my tea and thinking how strange it is, and wondering - have I been lonely? I wouldn’t have ever said that, but now that I sit here thinking, I wonder, was I always lonely? I’m not sure I’ve ever felt at home in the world, but I’m not sure that’s unique.”

“(…)
It was for this reason I had to leave. I was not up to the task of grieving Gilbert’s death and still being a decent father or a decent husband.”

“When I play it all back I am ashamed, and yet I cannot imagine having done any other thing. Grief shared, I think, can produce two outcomes. Either you bind yourselves together and hold on for dear life, or you let go and up goes a wall too high to be crossed. For us it was the latter.”

“Grief is a selfish bacteria. It demands all of your attention “.

“Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you”

“The future had been a luxury. The future didn’t exist any more”.

“The most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike”