“If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.”

“God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.”

“I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.”

“Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.”

“Samson caused the house to collapse, knowing his death would also result. Despite Samsons deliberate suicide, Samson died faithful after having judged Israel for 20 years. His name rightly appears ...”

“Yes, it was a "beautiful" sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject ...”

“How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?”

“It's all rather political, mourning is.”

“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didnt have a chance to grow.”