I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!

I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.