Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.