It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.