I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

The living deserve attention, too

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.