1. “You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give – a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”
2. “Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other’s outstretched hand.”
3. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”
4. “A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”
5. “It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.”
6. “I think our material is our lives. That’s part of a modern writer and we have to use it.”
7. “Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages re just in unhappy bodies.”
8. “I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.”
9. “Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.”
10. “God is a God of Lovingkindness.”
