“Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.”

“You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.”

“Yes. It doesn't matter what happens; no matter where a child goes - how far or how long. Even if it's forever. You never lose them. You can't.”

“It’s alright, kiddo. I’ll love you no matter how you are. No matter if you are gifted or not, your mother and I will love you all the way to the end of forever...”

“No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..”

“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”

“That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.”