“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”

“I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.”

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.”

“Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.”

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”