you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.