“The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.”

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

“The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.”

“People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.”

“Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.”

“I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in stupid little moments like these. These people aren't even my family, but I can see their value and if I can see it in something this small, when I feel this bad, then---Then why didn't he?”