The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.

You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.

They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.