I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

I think you always take pride in how you play.

Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.