God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.
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.