“My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.”

“We are all the product of our past and the perception of our future.”

“Emotions make us human. Denying them makes us beasts.”

“I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?”

“When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.”

“My life as a princes, or a peasant, is not worth living without you in it.”

“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”