Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.