“That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.”

“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.”

“And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.”

“Her's what I tell myself now. That it's vital to learn how to make the best of things. That there is no tenderness without bravery. That if things hadn't been so bad they could never have gotten so good. And that it's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Except for this: Every now and then, when you are impossibly lucky you rise above yourself-and get both.”

“Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?”

“You know how people are, always wanting the one thing they can't have.”