When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting bet… - C. S. Lewis

I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?