“There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?”

“Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.”

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

“Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?""Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up.”

“It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse.”

“Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”