It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.