“We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.”

“But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie”

“The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating.This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.”

“I can't decide which is worse, no electricity or unreliable electricity.I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”

“I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.”

“Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.”

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”