Let this night remind us to celebrate love, whenever it comes, in whatever form it appears, however enduring or fleeting it may be. For whether we search for love or are surprised by it, it always transforms us in ways we never expect.

I realized that Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love and get married and die in three days, which is like a super-condensed version of what happens to most people over their whole life. One way or the other, you end up losing the person, but you still are happy that you loved them. I mean, Uncle Dub wouldn’t have wished that he had never met Aunt Zinnia, just because he knew that one day she wouldn’t be in his life anymore.

We should always prepare for the tests that we know about. After all, there are so many that surprise us.

She looked like an angel who had decided that it was far more amusing to be wicked than to be good.

Of course, all knowledge is useful. But not all knowledge is worth the cost.

Problems can be fixed. But unrequited love is a tragedy.

Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.

Given enough time, the impossible becomes possible.

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.