Daisy Whitney quotes:

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.

I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

Nothing is ever enough.

Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.

I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.

My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.Without them, we are empty.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.