“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”

“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.”

“I knew by then that I would never have my mother back, not in the way I had known her all my life. When you have seen your mother shattered, there's no putting her back together. There will always be seams, chipped edges, and clumps of dried glue. Even if you could get her to where she looks the same, she will never be stronger than a cracked plate.”

“For in that sad yet happy hour, she had learned not only the bitterness of remorse and despair, but the sweetness of self-denial and self-control, and led by her mother's hand, she had drawn nearer to the Friend who always welcomes every child with a love stronger than that of any father, tenderer than that of any mother.”

“Dat had always told her that whenever you got angry at another person, it was an opportunity to take a glimpse of your own faults.”