Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.