“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that’s all.”

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world.

There’s a story behind everything but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story because hers is where yours begins.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

There are no random acts, We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict.

The words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

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.

Remember, the only difference between ‘marital’ and ‘martial’ is where you put the ‘i’.

My pain is from craving to feel your skin locked in mine while you cry out for more.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

Stop crying, keep hustling.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

In my entire career, I’ve never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

I hear the rain fall and suddenly I don’t feel so alone because the sky is crying too.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.