It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin