How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

There is a reason God limits man's days.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.