“The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.”

“There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.”

“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”

“I haven’t been avoiding you,” “You’re lying. The last time we were both at dinner, you got up in the middle of Mom’s fajita presentation and said you forgot to feed your cat.” Uh-oh. “So?” “You don’t have a cat.”

“What you love the most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.”

“You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to.”

“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”

“Live as big as you can, with what you've got.”