That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.