He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about..

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me.

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley’s Comet, crossing into our universe….

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he ….

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter..

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best..

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at ….

Hope can get you through anything..

The library is like a candy store where everything is free..

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't ….

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis..

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand..

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days..

Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that ma….

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home..

A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered….

Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They define you by what you do, by what your actions say ….

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your….

All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever..