Shakespeare's Secret

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.

...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.

I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.