“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.”

“You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.”

“But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.”

“The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.”

“Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.”

“She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“A true philosopher must never give up.”

“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.”

“Never, never, never give in!”