The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back

There are moments, I believe, when we are capable of communicating with those we love without using our voices, moments when we think of someone and the phone rings, or we speak the person’s name and suddenly they are standing beside us.

What was better, after all, than being in love with your best friend?

but with every new beginning, there is an inevitable end we must first accept,

I had watched Grandma O’Malley, a proud and simple woman, shrink and wrinkle and turn white over the years. But we expect that of our grandparents. Not our parents. For some reason, we think our parents will never grow old, perhaps because when they do, we are forced to acknowledge that we will one day grow old, and we face our own mortality.