- That was the mystery that we could never understand. You couldn't rationalise it. You could never explain why the heart chose to love who it loved. - Tony Parsons
- "You can't turn off your emotions like a faucet." - Rebecca from Jodi Picoult's 'Songs of the Humpback Whale'
- "Life is wasted on the living." - Fintan from Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes.
- Perhaps I should take my questions / up into the mountains, /tear them up in pieces /and deliver them to the wind. - Boey Kim Cheng
- She was doing this because she knew what it was like to hit rock bottom and to need someone to give you a leg up. She was doing this because she understood how a world jammed with phones and email and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone. - Addie from Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
- the words bright as a handful of new coins
- "One tear, just one. So make it a good one." She said.
- The house looked like it had been crying, black shutters hanging off their hinges like a fringe of damp eyelashes.
- Eventually, like all doctors,she came to understand that death was just the tail end of life.
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