“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”

“Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.”

“A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

“We spend vast amounts of time and energy crafting a thesis in our heads of how life should play out. Then Almighty God spends an incredibly brief amount of time blowing our thesis to bits.”

“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”

“Are you really going to work in that?" Maura asked.Blue looked at her clothing. It involved a few thin layering shirts, including one she had altered using a method called shredding. "What's wrong with it?"Maura shrugged. "Nothing. I always wanted an eccentric daughter. I just never realised how well my evil plans were working.”