"Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?"
"Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying."
"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."
"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
"Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always"
"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it."