There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

What could you give me," I ask, my voice shaking, "to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.