“surrender is giving up control bt nt lossing power”

“As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.”

“She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen”

“Beautiful. Belle is French for beautiful.”“Oh dear.” She could never live up to her name. The thought made her want to cry. “Please, sir.”“But you are beautiful. It mystifies me that you don’t seem to believe that fact.”“My mirror tells me otherwise every day of my life.”“Then accept that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and my eyes tell me you are beautiful.”

“I prefer the keen edge of truth to the dull comfort of lies.”

“We must hold our secrets to ourselves. They define us. They are all we have.”

“Jonathan’s arm jerked to the side in clumsy reaction, tipping over the bottle of ink that sat on the desk beside his papers. He watched the dark liquid obliterate in a moment what had cost him an afternoon of painful effort to complete. It was a fitting metaphor for his life, he thought, like the despair that spread inexorably through his being, a creeping blackness that threatened to blot out what small hope or purpose was yet left to him.”