“Life's hard and when you know there are ways to drown it out, it's hard to stay on the right path. It's a constant struggle. For a long time, I did it by myself.”

“When you become an adult, you get to choose your path. You take all the things you learned while you were on everyone else's and use it to build your own, but it's about where you heart wants to go. It's all up to you.”

“Sometimes when life hits you with too much, it makes you stronger and you learn from it. I know where I want to go while some of my friends don't. Life has brought me maturity. I make my decisions based on who I don't want to be, rather than whom everyone else wants me to be. I always want to be better. It took me time to see this, but it's true.”

“Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love.”

“Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to. Life was full of truths that don't play out in romance novels. Sometimes we don't get our happily ever after.”

“Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.”

“I learned a long time ago that most of my family and friends had plastic hearts. Plastic hearts are made so they cannot be broken. Cracked maybe, but never broken.”