Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.