“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”

“My darling one…. I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.”

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”

“Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.”

“I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.”

“No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.”

“Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.”

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”