Time can be a greedy thing – sometimes it steals all the details for itself.
There is only one sin. And that is theft… When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.
There is a way to be good again.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
Some stories do not need telling.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
Of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
In the end, the world always wins. That’s just the way of things.
For you a thousand times over![repeated often in the rest of the book]
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Behind every trial and every sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
