“It does not in any way, shape, or form resemble Winnie the Pooh.”

“I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.”

“did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep”

“You do anything for the person you love,” she said finally. "And then when you don’t think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to.”

“I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.”

“I loved every part of him. The smell of his skin, the scar on his cheek, the feel of his fingers pressing into my back. The way he could tell what I was thinking just by looking at me.”

“El amor era el único adversario de la muerte, la única cosa capaz de luchar contra sus voraces y desesperadas garras.”