“There are days when you just know deep in your bones that you've got every right to keep hoping.”

“You know you've got a problem when baristas greet you by name. You know you've got another problem when it's the warmest social interaction of your day.”

“I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful.""Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.”

“There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.”

“Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency.”

“I've just got to keep going and hope that one day, it starts to feel not quite as bad as it does now.”