This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.

The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.