There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.