“People and friends come and go as we learn and grow.”

“Trials don’t come to take what you have, they come to supply what you lack”

“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.”

“To the immature, other people are not real.”

“Life is all about practicing for heaven.” p 101.”

“With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”

“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.”

“You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.”

“Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn’t failure, but it’s a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink what you wanted to do, in the first place,and see what you can change.Then that is called determination and that, will lead to you having success.”

“Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.”

“Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.”

“It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous.”

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”