That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

My mum, Mrs Caroline Antwi said '' A person must achieve all that he/she can possibly achieve.

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?