“A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.”

“A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.”

“Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.”

“You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.”

“I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.”

“Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.”

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”