You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.