“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.”

“I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.”

“Love is not foolish. Yes, fools may fall in love but it is not foolish. Love is powerful and sometimes it is the one thing that keeps us alive. Don't dismiss it because it is difficult, most things worth having usually are.”

“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

“Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.”

“It's living up to being happy that's the most difficult part.”