“But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever”

“Blood is the life.”

“The future is a devious thing.”

“In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.”

“As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.”

“If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.”

“For the first time in this 11 years--I have come to love the darkness--for I believe now that it is a part, a very, very small part of Jesus' dakness and pain on earth. You have taught me to accept it [as] a "spiritual side of 'your work'"... (Mother Teresa, quoated in Kolodiejchuk, p. 208).”