“As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.”

“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”

“We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.”

“I had this sudden awareness,' she continues, 'of how the moments of our lives go out of existence before we're conscious of having lived them. It's only a relatively few moments that we get to keep and carry with us for the rest of our lives. Those moments are our lives. Or maybe it's more like those moments are the dots in what we call our lives, or the lines we draw between them, connecting them into imaginary pictures of ourselves.”

“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”