“With people you love, you should try to spend as much free time as you can with them ,because they might not aways be there.”

“If your not brave enough to talk to a stranger how do you think they will become anything more then a stranger.”

“There's a gap as deep as a canyon between how you come across to people and the way you are on the inside.”

“Whenever that happened, Joey clung to Troy's hand, willing him to know that Riker meant nothing.Well, maybe not nothing. He'd given Joey a valuable gift; he'd taught him what love wasn't. During their showdown in the men's room, it had dawned on Joey what love was. Love took long walks, spent time together talking about nothing. It gave smiles, and hugs, and trips to the beach when it really didn't want to go, because it wanted to share a special place with someone else. Love gave away possessions it valued, knowing the receiver valued them more. Love admitted being wrong, said it was sorry, and did whatever it took to make things right. It called in favors and put a town on the map to make life better for one person who lived there.Love was Troy.”

“I hatethat moment when Aaron and I split – each time it happens, and ithappens a lot. He storms off, or I walk out on him and I have asplit second where I feel I’ve lost my grip, I’m falling off the edgeof the world, I’m yelling, “Help!” and no one hears me. I’m alone.But later, when you get a distance and you start to think it through,it feels like it might not be so bad.”

“Did you ever think"..."That Keenan didn't fall because he was being punished?"..."Maybe..."..."Just maybe he fell because he was favored.”

“You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.”