“I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doingeverything just right? Taking no chances meanswasting your dreams.”

“Taking no chances means wasting your dreams..”

“...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.”

“Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.”

“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

“I wonder how long it would take him to realize I'm right as sin - it's the rest of the world that's wrong. I'm not even sure how I qualify for admission to Aspen Springs. Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?”

“I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)”