I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms. - James Baldwin

a child’s major attention has to be concentrated on how to fit into a world which, with every passing hour, reveals itself as merciless.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Somebody,' said Jacques, 'your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour — and in the oddest places! — for the lack of it.