“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”

“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”

“Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”

“Brian, maybe you are right after all. It was a plan. It had a beginning, middle and an end. We knew what we wanted to do, what we were going to do, and how to do it. We never meant for it to turn out this way, but you’re right. It was a plan. We got up off the floor and for the first time in two weeks, and we put our school uniforms on.”

“We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.”

“Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.”