“... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.”

“If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.”

“This was Scott. This is Scott, always looking back to try to figure out how to go forward, where happiness and prosperity must surely await.”

“Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.”

“If only. Were there sadder words than these?”

“Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.”

“I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.”