“The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.”

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

“It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.”

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

“As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.”

“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”