The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.