It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

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!

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.