Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.