"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."

"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why."

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone"

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand."

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.."

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."

"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"