We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.