“She continues to do her best to inspire and make others smile with her attitude of "it can always get better.”

“These days I have a ton of things to smile about. I feel like an adult again. I hope by reading this book, you or someone you care about will see that there will be things for you to smile about, e...”

“I never thought I'd be a teacher , but when I started doing it, I fell in love with it.”

“On Tuesday, December 7th, a lot of good things happened: they took the trach out, took the cast off my leg and my PT, Maria, had me standing.”

“On the fifth day, they told my parents I was on the bottom of the chart, and there was nothing else they could do.”

“Some of the things that contributed to my positive attitude were rejoicing, smiling and acknowledging every small step I had made.”

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”

“She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”