Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.