“Prayer had fortified him. It would require an almost superhuman strength of purpose, an absolute resolve, to save my brother from himself.”

“Maybe it´s because we all sat together for a while and concentrated on exactly the same thing. That could be it. Like how everybody becomes one person for a little bit and how the tiniest thing affects everybody in almost the exact same way”

“Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.”

“I shouted for no reason other than trying to shout out a bad feeling I had. A certain kind of lonely feeling. A feeling that embarrassed me”

“Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.”

“You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.”

“...life is a funny thing. We go through ups and downs, winters and summers, but somewhere, sometimes, it's good.”