“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.”

“I had made the vital realisation that my life was a series of events in which one merely had to keep on putting one foot in front of the other”

“Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.”

“if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

“Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.”

“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”