“Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.”

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

“Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.”

“but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.”

“It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.”

“If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.”

“Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”