In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.
Allison PearsonWhen you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.
Allison Pearson