Kyle Zark

“Life, he decided, was never a question of accumulating material things, nor in the struggle for reputation, but in the widening and deepening of perception, increasing the sensitivity of the faculties, of an awareness of the world in which one lives.”
― Louis L'Amour, Flint

“There is nothing to be gained from regret,” said Mrs Steadman. “The question is where do you go from here?”
― Stephen Leather, San Francisco Night

“Popular wisdom said that there were five stages of grief when a loved one dies: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But Nightingale knew the five stages didn’t always apply. Sometimes grief just hit you like a train and there were no stages to go through. There was just pain and loneliness and an empty black hole where the loved one had been.”
― Stephen Leather, Lastnight

“When someone passes, Benjamin, people always ask, ‘Why did God take them?’ A better question would be ‘Why did God give them to us?’ What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared? Didn’t you have such moments with Annabelle?”
― Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel