“Things usually work out in the end.""What if they don't?""That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

“But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.”

“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”

“As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.”

“You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”