You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

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.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong.

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.