Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.