“June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?”

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“How could anyone seriously believe that animals do not feel pain? After all, we have virtually the same evidence for animal pain that we have for human pain……So, on what grounds could anyone possible say animals are insensitive to pain?”

“A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”

“There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.”

“His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.”

“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?”

“You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”

“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”