“Death preserves an ideal.”

“Is nothing in life ever straight and clear the way children see it?”

“How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.”

“Things don't matter, people do”

“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”

“The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.”

“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.”

“As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much”

“Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?”

“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”

“Try to capture what you can't bear to be without”