What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.