“With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.”

“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

“We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time. We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”

“But this was the first time someone he loved would be gone forever. He didn't like to think about the forever part. But when he did, which was often, the only place he wanted to be was home.”

“The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone.”

“One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.”