“We can throw all the money we want at the gates of hell, not going to make a dent. The solutions to all of our problems can be found through prayer.”

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives. ”

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

“Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.”

“There's a hell all right. It's just not where people say it is....It's here. It's life, or it's what we turn life into, I guess. It's like we have to pass through all this painful stuff to get to where we're supposed to be, on the other side.”

“We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on”

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”