It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.