It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

I hope you're not smoking in front of her, ' Lucia says to him.'Yeah, I lie in bed and puff in her face, Lucia, ' he says, irritated.

Does it help?” he asks. “The e-mailing.”She nods. “A tiny bit. It’s strange. You’re writing a letter to someone who’s never going to read it, so it kind of frees you up a bit.

Even five minutes of your time can make someone’s day,

The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.