Love, son, is not manifest in the gift of gadgets or coddling foods or rooms of one’s own. Love shows itself in discipline and example and sacrifice – even giving up one’s life.
But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.
This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. – ARISTOTLE.
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.