...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

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

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

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.