Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.