But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

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