"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."