“I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.”
“They had no idea that normal didn't exist for me anymore. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.”
“So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after”
“When Eddie B. dared me to walk the net bridge over the Elijah Hatchett River where we'd seen an alligator and another kid got bit by a coral snake, I wasn't scared--I just didn't feel like doing it right then.”
“The heart was made to give love; once the heart is satisfied, life just doesn't seem so bad anymore.”
“I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.”