“We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.”

“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”

“It may seem sometimes, that it is hard to find the right words to say to someone. It is even harder to remain silent, until the right words come. Then it’s easy.”

“We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty.”

“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless... Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.”

“We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.”