“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures as well as its thorns and toils.”
“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
“It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower”
“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”