Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

The past is obdurate.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.