"There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like."
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."
"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship"
"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins"