These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.