"I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out."
"Why is love intensified by absence?"
"Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element."
"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
"The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway."
"...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath."