If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny. But if I happened to be tired, or if there were extra bills to pay and no money to pay them with, it seemed awful. I'd think 'This isn't the way our lives are supposed to be going.' Then I'd think 'Half the world has the same idea.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.