"to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go"
- Tony Parsons
"...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite."
"I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always startin..."
"It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again."
"Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that th..."
"Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 2..."
"The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up..."