“You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things”

“I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first. (Riley to her sister Alice about P...”

“Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. O...”

“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didnt come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you werent ready, when you were just innocently flossing your t...”

“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”

“Alice suspected Paul couldnt really picture his father, just like she couldnt picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.”

“Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.”

“You're not free unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.”

“A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.”