“Her two worlds, two lives that she tried so hard to keep separate, were crashing together. And she felt helpless to stop it.”

“He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.”

“Her hand wandered under his shirt, feeling his rapid breath expand his ribs. She hesitated for a secondwondering what the chances were that either of her parents would come home earlythen lifted hi...”

“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.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

“In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and tur...”

“There is always hope for the living.Keep hope alive.Never give in to fear.”