I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.