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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

People need God the way a three-year-old needs a chainsaw.

When confidence is there, conviction is easy.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.