The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

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

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

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.

Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.