there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.