When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

I don't write romance novels.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.