“The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get be...”

“Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we dont have to be who we really are.How ...”

“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away...”

“Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones youre ashamed of is huge. But too often, we ...”

“If beauty is pain let me get lost in it. If youre my salvation I want to earn it. If love is all I have to give then let me give it. You. Its all for you. Gabes eyes opened and locked in on mine...”

“For as long as it takes for the sorrow and pain to transfer into acceptance. Ill stay here. With you. By your side. I wont leave.Promise?Vow. I placed his hands gently on the piano. I vow.”

“The weight of your baggage never stops true love from taking flight.”

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing”

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.”

“Ultimately, we are all dead men - we only become born again after we have discovered our purpose, a reason to live.”

“In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see.”

“Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.”

“Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can ...”

“Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he barely whispers. His mother strokes his hair.'Maybe it believes you can handle i...”