It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.

I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

You just looked..." she said, searching for the word, "taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did alittle, but nothing like most girls. It was a little swoon. Not a sa-woon, you know?" I said, "Sa-woon? Oh, come on," she said shaking her head. "Even a blind girl could tell he is amazing.