“I like seeing my daughter in the news for dating a woman,” her mom continued. “There are much worse reasons to be famous.”

“There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.”

“For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.”

“Our society has tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough it will go away. Often we as family and loved ones are so afraid of death that even mentioning the word to terminal patients is taboo. We think the dying are oblivious to what is happening to them. Sadly, a dying person frequently feels afraid to bring it up him or herself. When I enter a hospital room I often hear a sigh of relief. At last, someone is here to help the family come to terms with what is playing out before them. Death has too long been the elephant in the living room, while everyone awkwardly discusses the weather.”

“It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.”

“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.”

“I’m still going to eat a lot of tacos,” Nate said. “But I’m going to do it judgmentally”

“Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.”