“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remembe...”

“Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned...”

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”

“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”

“Hardships make or break people.”