Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

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

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.