…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.