Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.