“The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.”

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

“There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.”

“Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Sat...”

“Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the divi...”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”