The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, 'is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. Getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

To me she said, 'It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone.'It's a game of wits,' Bert said to me.'Half-wits,' Kristy added.