“Always believe.”

“Mr. Passaro, let me teach you about how medicine works. He starts out.One of two things is going to happen. Either the Doctors are going to say I told you so, or they are going to say that Jess was...”

“I need to dream.I need to believe. I need to know that I have some control in my life.That if I work hard, that I will be rewarded.That life is not arbitrary.I need to believe that bad things happe...”

“There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly.One day you are just a member.It is The life changing events club.The fee to join the club is hurt beyond belief, payable in full, up fr...”

“Whose team are you on? I ask him. I dont follow you what do you mean whose team am I on? he asks. I mean, you want your son back and there are forces in this world that want to take him from you...”

“Just do the next right thing.Then repeat indefinitely.”

“Sometimes nature can take its course and shove it. Our commitment to protecting our cat or dog is life-long and sadly, sometimes, that includes protection from discomfort and pain, even if, in the ...”

“I love my mother.My mother loves my dad.Those two facts are undeniable.I want my father to live.I want him to fight to live as long as he can.My mother wants to let him pass.She does not want him s...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”