“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”

“Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.”

“He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I vowed to never again care for someone so much, I couldn't bear to lose them.”

“Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.”

“That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.”

“Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.”