“There’s a reason for everything, you said, and though it’s a mystery to me now, I know it won’t always be so.”

How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn’t let go of their loved ones when they’re gone?

On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

That’s death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love.

There’s no such thing as a lost cause.

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive?

A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It’s the same all over the world.

…like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

They looked at me and said, “We have no idea.” That’s why you have to make your own backstory.

Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.

No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.