How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.

I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.

We grieve for those we've lost, but it's the living that cause us the most pain....

A man's hearted could rub deeper than any gift could reach.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

And then he remembered Hawat's words: Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.

A time of love and a time of grief.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be one. The most real people, those who are able to forget their selfish selves, who have true compassion, are usually the most distinct individuals