Quotes from Elvi Rhodes

But once one's children had flown the nest, when one was no longer in control, one felt somehow left behind.

But if I can't change the past, she thought, I can change the future, at least my own future. And if being strong was what it took, then she would learn to be strong.

I'm not sure that it's safe to be happy. You see, I thought for years that I was happy and then it all vanished. So now I think I'd rather take happiness in small doses, seize them when they come and not try to hang on to them. I'm contented. . . . Contented is safer than happy; there's not as far to fall.