When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.

God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.

I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.