“She preferred to get high on life.”

“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone”

“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.”

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”

“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.”

“Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.”

“God, that’s always the thing you have to decide with high school kids: what to make an issue of, what to let go.”