“People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...”

“It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.”

“My heart is shattered, an all that's left are jagged shards.”

“I remember her words to me when I left school: Your mind will be your comfort. It is, sometimes. And sometimes it isn't.”

“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ...Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and by the end of the song most of us are crying. I am too, though I sti...”

“Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.”

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”