I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.