“I have too much doubt. Its the bastard child of fear. I hate fear. So doubt sidles up next to determination in my heart. It doesnt outweigh it. They coexist.”

“I dont want to be my limitations. I dont want to be my pain. I dont want to be my embarrassment.”

“the person youve always wanted to be. Some days your heart will be in it, and some days youll fake it, but eventually it will become a habit and without thinking about it, you will be changed anew....”

“Genetics doesnt ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You dont give them your time, and you dont show them effort”

“Because thats what parents do, without even thinking about it, thats what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when theyre adults no...”

“And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.”

“Of course it would be hard. But I remembered what my nurseryman grandfather used to say when I didnt want to go to school: half the work in the world was done by people who didnt feel so good today.”

“I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”

“I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon. There was something about watching Hatch that reminded me of unpleasant, futi...”

“Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.”

“To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.”