“... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.”

“He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.”

“Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.”

“How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?”

“There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.”

“The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”