They wait to say things, and they don’t get the chance. So collecting other people’s stories, learning from their mistakes, it is a gift too. You are who you are right now in part because of what you did for Len and his family. You

“He was the love of her life, and he let the world make him too small for her.

“If you’ve got something to say,” I reply, “I’d love for you to interrupt me.”

Even if you’re the one to build the monster, you’re never going to be able to control it. It’ll gladly eat you alive and floss with your bones, once it’s finished with everyone else.”

That I could miss it, if you’re actually not.

It freaks me out a little, that I could…that I could feel like this, about someone who’s good at pretending to be fine.

The truth was king, but emotion was the truth’s most valuable adviser.

once you love someone, you can’t have it all anymore. Love comes with sacrifice.

What was more, he shaped the world around his readers, told them whom to rage against, what to fear.