“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”
“Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory.”
“There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.”
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
“A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.”