As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Denial is an ugly thing.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.