Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?

closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.