When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.
...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.