We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy... - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

"Why is love intensified by absence?"

"...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath."

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"

"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."

"You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair."