Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.