“Don't let your habits become handcuffs”

“Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.”

“You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go.”

“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond which it would not let you venture. You had to have a break from your anguish, or you'd go crazy. It was the psychological equivalent to fainting when physical pain became overbearing.”

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

“For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.”

“If you say something over and over again, it begins to lose it's meaning... Say anything enough times and it becomes gibberish.”