The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?