One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.
The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.