Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.