"There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean". - John Irving

If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes — when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever — there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.