“At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.”

“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”

“Funny how certain things stay with you.”

“So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.”

“I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”

“The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”

“I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find the things that matter and hold onto them and fight for them and refuse to let them go.”