“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

“I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.”

“Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis...”

“But when I was an energetic self-important 10-year-old and found myself in a roomful of grownups, I felt guilty, and thought it only polite to conceal the fun I was having elsewhere. When an aged f...”

“It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little...”

“See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. Thats what Gods love does. If youre beginning to feel uncomfortable now, its because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day y...”

“The heart was made to be broken.”

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Its his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

“Was it hard?" I ask.Letting go?"Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”