“If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad —”

“Life would be so simple if we could re-write the bad parts but since we can't, let's make the good parts worth writing about :)”

“What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad”

“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”

“What he was saying was that he really wanted to be part of her life. The good days and the bad ones, too.”

“And Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them.”