Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.