Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

— Noorilhuda

Be faithful to the unknown, plan for it by expecting it rather than waiting for it to knock you down. I believe your husband will take care of you, for he is a hardworking sensible man, but Jane, I had no one to look out for me when I was growing up, or when I had you all to myself, it did not make me rudderless, cynical or pacifist, but it did make me feel extremely alone. It blinded me, I did not know what to make of it. No person in life can fill up that feeling, no matter how many workers we have or friends to call on, or women fluttering about, you are in this alone, you have to be all you can be in this life, and no one can make it happen for you, it is necessary to be lonely every once in a while, it is even good, but there is a difference in being alone and being helpless. If you let yourself be helpless, if you find yourself in such a predicament where you feel there is no way out, then you will be crushed whether you are a flower or a mountain. And you must not allow yourself to be crushed." - Mr. Adams to daughter Jane

— Noorilhuda

Even in death, her mother was winning.

— Noorilhuda

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

— Noorilhuda

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

— Noorilhuda

He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way.

— Noorilhuda

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

— Noorilhuda

Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.

— Noorilhuda

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

— Noorilhuda

I ask you what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

— Noorilhuda