But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her, ' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia, ' he says, irritated.

Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.”She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.

We live in the shadows of perception. Our dull awareness gives us no useful clues as to why we are here.

[On Marilyn Monroe:] Her body has gone to her head.

A day alone, only that would be death.

The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.

What are you going to do when you get to eternity, if you can't stick in an hour with God down here?

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.