I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.