Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.