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.

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

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

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.

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