The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.