“Love meant hope. Without love, life held no promise.”

“Was it too much to ask that she find someone who wanted the same things in life as she did--a home, someone to lean on when the not-so-perfect times came crashing down?”

“Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.”

“Fate wouldn't create a man that drop-dead gorgeous and make him gay, would it? Oh yes, fate would.”

“I always want her to know she is loved. But I will make my own mistakes, I know. I can only hope that she will forgive me for those; forgiveness is all a parent can hope for.”

“Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.”

“My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.”