You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!