Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.
Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.
I love you present tense.
Life works best when we think of people as people.
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.