“It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.”

“It's better to hope than mope!”

“I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.”

“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.”

“...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”

“A woman’s body doesn’t quit just because her heart breaks.”

“Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.”