I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't...

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

When we feel powerless in a hostile world we can at least practice quelling the enmity in our minds.

Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I'm living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not...

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life - relaxed, open - minded, and emotionally energized - are...

Steven and I had always come to the market to check out the fresh flowers, so when Friday came around with the fresh roses, I always stood in the middle of it all, breathing in the memories and...

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky. She settled for...

This might not mean much to you right now, but for what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better than most. Life isn't black and white. People aren't either. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a...

I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to...

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, he says softly.

Sometimes, it is wise to let people go without any complaints. If they are a part of our destiny, they will return after a couple of seasons. Till then, let them dwell in the pages of our memories.

Fear is the greatest prison. Hope is the greatest freedom.

Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it's the chaos which helps us find where we belong.

When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.

"Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. "No, the divorce was great," I said. "It was the marriage that sucked."

This larder of memories, of sex, of life, of family that we had built up, could always be called upon in the leaner times of our relationship... Everything we had built together over twenty years was...

Medicine asked something extraordinary of nurses: to forge intimate connections with another person for hours, weeks, or months, to care thoroughly and holistically - and then to let that individual...

I believed I had won the world in an hour and that I still didn't know I could lose it in a minute.

This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.

Why do you cry for someone else? Save your tears for your own time of mourning, when you are alone! When loneliness wants to break your heart and you have no one...

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.