“Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.”

“I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.”

“We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your li...”

“I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.”

“I was not born to wait.”

“Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.”

“Its not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, co...”

“I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.”

“Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and hed start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had d...”

“I didn't like showing weakness, not to anybody.”

“We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes you had to put it all out there, no matter how hard it felt to do so. When the people in your li...”

“The story unfolded quickly as I typed, in a way I was becoming familiar with. There was something about putting the truth on paper, bringing facts into the light of day where everyone could look at...”

“I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way...”