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.

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

You were one person, and you changed the world.