Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.