“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”

“Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain – and so I am”

“I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don’t know why, but it always makes me feel better.”

“And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?”

“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it’s a sin if you don’t reach back… I’m telling you.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”