“Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.”

“It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different.”

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

“Dios," he said, addressing himself to Jace. "What happened to you, brother? You look as if a pack of wolves tried to tear you apart."
"That's either a shockingly good guess," said Jace, "or you heard about what happened.”

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.”

“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.”

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”