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

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

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

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.

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.