“Because the truth wouldn't be comforting and wouldn't bring them closer again.”
“...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart...”
“The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.”
“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
“He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"No.”
“It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.”