Mignon McLaughlin

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.