Okay. Enough." I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. "This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay." She narrowed her eyes at me. "When did you suddenly become so positive?" "Just get out of there.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.