“But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.”

“How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.”

“Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.”

“Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.”

“The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.”

“Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's ...”