“To lose everything is not the worst that can happen.""It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”

“Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.”

“We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.”