“Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.”

“Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.”

“...at the end she’d be nothing more than a memory, if that.”

“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.”

“I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.”

“No matter how bad things get, Frannie darling, they can always get worse and they can always get better. Expect worse and you’ll never be disappointed.Expect better and you’ll always have something to look forward to.”

“She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.”