She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

One day can bend your life.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.

Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.