“Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair.”
“Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.”
“Life is too hard, too much to handle. Nobody told me there’d be days like these. How could nobody tell me there’d be days like these? How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?”
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
“I sense a deep despair inside this boy that must be hard to live with.”
“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.”