Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.