"Danny? You listen to me. I'm going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. There's some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't car"
"Dying was part of living. You had to keep tuning in to that if you expected to be a whole person. And if the fact of your own death was hard to understand,at least it wasn't impossible to accept."
"The world's a hard place, Danny.It don't care.It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either.…… That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what."