“No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance.”

“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”

“BELIEVE in yourself even if nobody else does!”

“Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life.”

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

“Anyway, I heard you and your Mother-in-Law kicked ass! Shame his daddy'o wasn't around for the family reunion, although I doubted a battle is the right way to say 'hi,my name's Kiera and I am sexing up your son's man stick.”

“Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities . . . to get together with someone. And we’ve both screwed up so many times”—my voice grows quiet—“that we’ve missed our chance.”