Page 21: "But here in the present, ...I had no choice but to move ahead. [We] worked hard, me at school..."
Page 30: "Now things can only get better, right?"
Page 54: "...did not gloss over her wild past, maintaining instead that it had been crucial to her development as a person."
Page 63: "...doesn't it seem, sometimes, that the whole damn world's uphill?"
Page 81: "No matter how carefully I worked at it, by the time I finished all I could see was the raw sadness in the lines as I scanned them, all my failings and flaws cropping up in the spaces between the words."
Page 87: "...maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did."
Page 93: "...some things are just meant to be the way they are." "It's just that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is."
Page 97: "I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time." "Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you choose in the end."
Page 112: "It's okay... it's all going to be okay."
**TO BE CONTINUED; PAGE 112**
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