All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.