“Even in the depths of despair, a person can soar to heights of greatness.”

“The truth most families eventually discover is that no one can cure another person's addiction. Omly addicts can do that for themselves.”

“That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy”

“Yet there must be something repulsive about her somewhere, something more repelling than just a pair of eyes that couldn't see, for she'd been told they were still outwardly blue and clear and large as new. Or maybe the flaw was in the other people, in the old mistrust of a person who wasn't exactly like them, or in the equally time-polished belief that, because a person wasn't physically perfect outside, she must be either superhuman or subhuman inside and shouldn't or couldn't be treated like other people.”

“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”

“She pushed the revelation about Dr. Kruger into a side pocket of her mind, to be examined more thoroughly another time. Who would ever have suspected that he was shy? That any grownups were, for that matter, and especially a person as important as a doctor?”

“You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”