“Or maybe this is the true order. To bring together the need with the thind that is needed.”

“Maybe it's true that shared trauma brings people closer together-a common hardship, a battle to survive-because when times are quiet people relax and go their own separate ways. They're lulled into believing they've got everything under control and don't need what they did before.”

“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”

“My life had gone right; it had gone exactly as it needed to in order to bring me here.”

“In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.”

“Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow.”