She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.