“We kind of fell into one another, not even realizing it was happening.”

“I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.”

“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”

“I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.”

“Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.”

“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.”

“They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.”