A. A. Milne

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.