“On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.”

“You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”

“Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.”

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.”

“Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")”

“To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.”

“You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is do...”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?Her stomach twisted. No. She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadnt had the gift before? That she couldnt have used it against him? I would ne...”

“If you can find happiness inside of you, nothing will be able to create angst in your mind.”

“Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when its a little closer to being perfect.”