We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

God, life changes faster than you think.