My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

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

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.