If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.