“I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.”

“Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, "I can't tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let's walk faster." Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.”

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”

“It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.”

“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”

“I had fought my feelings, guarded them, and bottled them up. I had experienced the happiest moments of my life while at Eastern, all of them with Travis. Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.”