“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

“...you make your own way in life. Sometimes that's hard for people to love, when they can't make you do what they want you to.”

“Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes. ”

“But mostly there was the ease that came from not having to pretend you had ever recovered. The world wanted you to go on. The world needed you to go on. But the Mumble Jumbles understood that the loss soundtrack was always playing in the background. Sometimes it was on mute, and sometimes it was blasting away on ten, making you deaf.”

“It is the wretched way people have of setting up a claim to happiness that ruins everything in this world. A man will make progress if he can get rid of this claim and desire nothing but what he sees before him .”

“Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious.”