“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.”

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”

“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”

“I love the way Law and Order doesn’t always put their heroes on the side of good. And sometimes they win, sometimes they lose and sometimes for the wrong reasons. I also think it’s interesting that there is a series that has remained story-driven in its, what, sixtieth season, right? If not for them, I would argue that all shows eventually become soap operas about the lives of the characters. Law And Order does what it does and does it well. It may simply be that you’re mistaking consistency for blandness, how ’bout that, fella?”

“Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.”

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”