If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

Not even need and love can defeat fate...

She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.