We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.

You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.