“How many things would you attempt
If you knew you could not fail”

“It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

“They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.”

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”

“[Alex] "I never knew how many ways there were to fail until I moved here."”

“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”