Quotes from C.A. Belmond

You must live every day as if it counts, which means to love all of it. Never let a single one go by without noting the color of the sky, the song of the bird, the face of the one you love best. And don't let yourself get talked out of the things you really care about, don't put off what you want to be.

Life's a riddle, child," he said lightly, "but if you can feel the bumps on the road, it means you're alive and in the game. And that is a good place to be.

When people die,' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.

And, if there's one thing I've learned about life, it's that if you just put one foot on the road you'd like to travel, pretty soon you find yourself arriving there.

Beautiful, neurotic. Elusive. Accused me of giving up on us first. Not sure of that. She said I didn't make enough effort to change, which is true. I'm to blame for getting testy in the end....Lost my sense of humor, which is deadly. She was surprisingly harsh, once she made up her mind that we were through....Best way to break it off, I suppose, but it left a bad taste. I would have preferred kinder memories.

There is, after all, a fine line between being pampered and being embalmed.