“Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.”

“Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”

“Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.”

“Will you love me enough?”

“Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.”

“I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.”

“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”

“Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.”

“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”

“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”

“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”