The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. Children should do it more often.

Sacrifice," The Captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost.You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's...

But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and...

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.

You were never alone.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time.There are as many expressions with "time" as there are minutes in a day.But once, there was no...

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time-more and more time-and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.

He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape,...

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.

You were one person, and you changed the world.

You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened

People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless. - This is the greatest gift God can...

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

Did you know, the old woman said now, standing beside the grown-up Annie, that a dog will go to a crying human before a smiling one? Dogs get sad when people around them get sad. They're created that...

Inside all humans is the entirety of your memories, the ones you can access and the ones you cannot.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them

Ain't you supposed to have peace when you die?'You have peace,' the old woman said, 'when you make it with yourself.

We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All...

A whole heart is a heart that has been broken.

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

I have come to teach you that there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind. ... Did you ever...

What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No...

Lines formed at Ruby Pier- just as a line formed someplace else; five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to...