“You couldnt predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.”

“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.”

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

“He often came back all thinky from work.”

“Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit...”

“Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. Its only human nature”

“Hed pushed it back, where hed kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldnt stay. Wouldnt stop. Wouldnt let him go.”

“My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.”

“Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.”

“The scariest thing about distance is that you dont know whether theyll miss you or forget you.”

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

“A week feels like a year when youre seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched me...”

“Each flower is a field smile, every man is the soul of the world.”

“Answer the question what am I living for? and become a master in this field, serve others with your gift, because you were created exactly with this goal”

“It all starts with having a very clear picture and vision to what your ideal life looks like in every area, on and off the field, and once you have that vision, it will begin to take shape in your ...”