That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

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.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.