“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someones memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memorie...”

“[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.”

“She loved him, and she was going to do everything she could to get him back. She hadnt come this far just to walk away. He was the love of her life, dammit. The man she wanted to marry. The world h...”

“Its easy to point out someone elses mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most peopleexcept the lucky few like ourselvesare forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to ...”

“Ah, selfish. Theres that word again. Sherry smirked. Its been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see? She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. Giv...”

“It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn...”

“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evol...”

“Give me loveGive me loveGive me peace on earthGive me lightGive me lifeKeep me free from birthGive me hopeHelp me cope, with this heavy loadTrying to, touch and reach you with,heart and soul”

“Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappear...”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.”

“You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.”

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”