“Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.”
“When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.”
“We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.”
“How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?”
“Some days seem like the end of your life but then they aren't and you still have to figure out how to wake up again.”
“Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better”