“Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. ”

“Strong people don't put others down... They lift them up.”

“While we may love each other and never stop loving each other, so often we stop "showing" each other love.”

“Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.”

“The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.”

“When I didn’t see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day, in some way or another.” - Emma”

“Each person leaves a legacy--a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole. But do not despair, for despair is a despicable and bourgeois affectation; we must not allow it. As for what happens next, well, as the Cuban poet Regino Pedroso once said, "como forjamos el hierro, forjaremos días nuevos": as we hammer out iron, we shall hammer out new days.”