“Wolfgang von Goethe:"A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.”

“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”

“Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.”

“The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.”

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved parents. She had seen, when she entered the kitchen, the chasm of sorrow that divided man and wife already, each deep in their own wretched suffering, neither knowing what to say to the other. She knew that to begin to talk about what had happened was a key to acknowledging their loss, and that such acceptance would in turn be a means to enduring the days and months ahead.”

“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

“Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it. But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.”