Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

Lie to yourself until it's true.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.