“Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.”

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”

“I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny...”

“No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.”

“Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.”

“Chris didnt need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.”

“I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”

“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”