But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. - Gabrielle Zevin

All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.

It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.