“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under societys so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know Im not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the ...”

“Just make sure the day doesnt pass without sayin whats in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and theyre gone forever.”

“As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.”

“Its a funny thing, one day youre living and the next day youre not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I dont even know if I would want ...”

“I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.”

“The world bein so small aint always a good thing for those of us who aint searchin for new and different stuff.”

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”

“Ive been fighting to be who I am all my life. Whats the point of being who I am, if I cant have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.”

“Maybe people like us cant be happy. Maybe were too damaged and the only thing we can do is to learn how to hate ourselves a little less.”

“Sometimes you're trying so hard to get your life together and still it's not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you're asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for every...”

“He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want...”