Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.