I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.