“Our losses become the road maps for our future.”

“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.”

“We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty.”

“To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness.”

“There are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.”

“I suppose no one is truly dead when we go on loving them.”

“I am thinking about you, I say to her. Can you hear me?”