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.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.