“...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.”

“But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.”

“It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.”

“In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.”

“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.”

“Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.”