Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing every thing else.

Sometimes it’s safer to cry about people you don’t know than to think about people you really love.

You have to fight for happiness.

I wondered how many people had sung “By the dawn’s early light’ yesterday and were dead today.

This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we’re given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that’s the sin.

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, “Hey, it’s a black-on.” This is what passes for humor around here.

We can’t accept that things will always be bad. If we do, we won’t fight to make things better.

This life is no more than the blink of an eye compared to life everlasting.

I’m 16 years old. Let me get my learner’s permit first. then I’ll worry about lifetime commitments.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow,” she said. “We might as well enjoy today.