You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

The law's the law, but people are people.

Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.

We can't rightly ever talk about the future, if you think about it. We can only talk about what we imagine or wish for. It's not the same thing.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death.