“What they don’t know is, no matter how they decide, they can’t penalize me more than I’m already punishing myself.”

“Are you afraid of falling, baby?No, I’m afraid of landing.[He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.]Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?”

“I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.”

“More than most, I know the pain of surviving.”

“I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.”

“Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.”

“People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up, because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.”