The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Do you want to keep your knee, young man?' 'No', I said. 'What?' 'I want it cut off,' I said, 'so I can wear a hook on it.

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.

his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We're all broken that's how the light gets in.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

We are all broken — that's how the light gets in.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.