You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

one word could change the whole world

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.