“Love makes us such fools.”

“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”

“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”

“children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”

“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”