“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered herquestion. Then I nodded vigorously as I remembered. Tears streamed ...”

“In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a single small spark I sensed deep inside of me, but that spark guided me in the twiste...”

“You who have never been there in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scatteredthoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something o...”

“Dont you believe that Jacob can be healed? some persisted, pressuringElizabeth to believejust believeand Jacob would be healed. Theunderlying message was that Elizabeths faith was not strong enough...”

“You have no idea how well you are doing, John complimented mejust a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card. What did that mean: That I was doing well? That Id come to a family gathering?...”

“That evening I sat across from Jeremy Bulloch and Jacob at the dinner table. I watched as Jeremy, who seemed to speak Jacobs silent language fluently, drummed his fingers up and down on the edge of...”

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“So its true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

“I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.”

“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, w...”

“There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.”

“Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.”

“You're not free unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.”

“A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.”