Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

The real hell of this, " he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

If you get NO as an answer, remember, N.O means Next Opportunity.

This woman is a virus and she’s eating me alive.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate’s dangerously elevated. That sound? I’m being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)

We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.