When hope is gone, time is punishment.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.