“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”

“Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing”

“It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

“Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.”

“Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”