The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.
It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me - a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I'd loved him as my everything, long after I'd begun to love him as a friend.
But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.