“I believe that people who find each other in this life will find each other in the next.”

“I'll treasure every day that I have with you. For I've known what life was like before you and..and since you, and as far as I'm concerned, these are two different lives. And one makes me so very much happier that the other.”

“Loved ones are sometimes taken from us, either by death or other circumstances outside our control. Yes, we should lament their departure and yes, we should pray for them often. But we shouldn't dwell so deeply upon such vacancies that life itself becomes empty.”

“A Reason? People always say that. But only pepole who haven't really suffered talk about reasons. Because that's so much eaiser to say than to hear. What's the reason that our patients die? That they'll never walk again? That we've treated children whose limbs have been blown off? For that matter what's the reason for this hideous war?”

“How can you say goodbye to someone who is a part of you?”

“Never deny yourself love, my child. For to deny love is to deny God's greatest gift. And who are we to deny God?”

“A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or he would be there.”