“Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.”

“And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.”

“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.”