Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Hope can get you through anything.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I dream into my future.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

I feel like little bits of my soul are being shipped domestically.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.