There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of something much bigger

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.