1. If I must bear it, though, I would bear it— find the whole meaning of it, taste the whole of it.
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
2. Whatever one of us asked the other to do - it was assumed the asker would weigh all the consequences - the other would do. Thus one might wake the other in the night and ask for a cup of water; and the other would peacefully (and sleepily) fetch it. We, in fact, defined courtesy as 'a cup of water in the night'. And we considered it a very great courtesy to ask for the cup as well as to fetch it.
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
3. It’s hard, since Noah, not to see a rainbow as a sign of hope.
A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph