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.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.