“You push forward, you fight the demons, you keep moving. Fear tries to paralyze you, to keep you from moving. It stops success, it stops progress - when you do things afraid, you're still accomplis...”

“Living is hard--dying is easy. You close your eyes and never open them again. What's so difficult about that? Nothing really--except it hurts like hell to those you leave behind.”

“What do you love more? she teased. My hair or my heart? Why give me only two choices? Dont leave out your legs, your laugh, the way you bite your lip when youre thinking, the feel of your breath on...”

“the nurse smiled and patted my arm. Dont give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written The End, what he really means is The Beginning.”

“God I choked on the word. I know we havent talked much in the past few years. Hell, I told you I hated you when Tye took his own life. I cursed again and pinched the bridge of my nose. I dont even ...”

“In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.”

“Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!”

“No, moaned Tom in despair. School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summers even over! Ruin half the vacation!”