What will you do? Eva would ask him. I don't know, he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine because he couldn't take the sight of blood. What will you...
Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let’s face it. I can’t go shopping, I can’t take care of the bank accounts, I can’t take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look...
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Unlike any man before him, Dor was being allowed to exist without getting older, to not use a single breath of the numbered breaths of his life. But inside, Dor was broken. Not aging is not the same a...
They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty. To
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
There is life after this life.
There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.
The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.
The carnivals gave me my names, Edward. Sometimes I was the Blue Man of the North Pole, or the Blue Man of Algeria, or the Blue Man of New Zealand. I had never been to any of these places, of course,...
Sully: I never said good-byeGiselle: Such a needless word when you love somebody
Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family yo have yet to come to know.
Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.
Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors...
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared...
People say they find love, as if it were an object hidden under a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.