“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

“You are most likely to respect a stranger more than you respect your parents and siblings, the people whom you know inside out.”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

“Live your way, not the way that friends, partners, colleagues or your parents told you that you must.”

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.”

“Listen stranger, passerby,
And those I never knew.
There's not one day that you are living
Has been promised to you.”

“From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.”

“All days come from one day
that much you must know,
you cannot change what's over
but only where you go.”

“There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.”