“When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.”

“You're going to live your life. You're going to honor him doing things you would have done if he'd never gotten sick and died”

“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.”

“When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.”

“You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.”

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”