Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

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.

People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love. And [he] found a certain love with [her], a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.

I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.