[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

Your fear is the most boring thing about you.