“Be in constant communication with Him so that when times get hard, you will have relationship instead of requests.”

“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”

“Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. For a long time, I did it by myself.”

“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time.I am trying hard, Dad says.I know. You get a sticker.Thank you.Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”

“It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?”

“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather”