“YOU WERE MY FAVORITE THING AND IN IMAGINATION YOUR DEATH WILL NOT EXIST IT IS ALL 'AS IF' FROM NOW ONAS IF YOU ARE NOT GONEYOU WILL BE THE GIRL BESIDE MENEVER MORE THAN A HEARTBEAT LENGTH AWAYTHE W...”

“That is the tragedy of losing an older brother. He stays still. You keep on and one day become the older one.It's unnatural, thatreversal. It's the thing that keeps the family from ever being whole...”

“No one ever said youve got to prepare to be hated. Youve got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.”

“People always ask, Why does God allow suffering? Why does He allow a child to be beaten? A woman to cry? A holocaust to happen? A good dog to die painfully? Simple truth is, He wants to see for Him...”

“Don't you wannabe agreat baseball player? He sighed back into the wall. I want to be a great man, Fielding. And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, ho...”

“As we walked home, I knew from far away the trees would've looked nice, the grass would've looked green, and we would've looked like just a couple of boys walking home, armed with Midwest love and ...”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”