I know now that we never get over great losses: we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures … We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow. Gail Caldwell

Light is precious in a world so dark. Kate DeCamillo

There is nothing I can say that will bring them back, all their bright futures spread before us, but I will stand here all the same with you my heart broken open with yours and remember what we have lost. Brian Andreas

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. Robert Fulghum