Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

There are things that happen that change the course of people's lives, but it's a function of everybody's lives.

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.

you have to love something before you can hate it.