“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
“In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night
“To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead
“If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home again
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys
“There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy