“Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”

“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”

“Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.”

“And I shall set this last truth down. We are who we are because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”

“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”

“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”

“The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.”