“If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears cleaned.”

 “Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough. And yet even when the meaningful is forgotten, memory doesn’t define what it means to be human.”

‎”You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen…

“The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.”